I hope this gets recorded. joe salerno On 6/8/2012 5:37 PM, Michael Biel wrote: > Leah and I will be there!!! I haven't seen Oliver in years. Thanks for > the info, Doug. > > Mike Biel [log in to unmask] > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Doug Pomeroy<[log in to unmask]> > > For those in or near near New York City, there will be a talk by the > feisty Oliver Berliner, which should prove interesting to say the least. > > Open to the public and free: > >> The New York Section of the Audio Engineering Society invites all >> folks who are actively involved in professional audio to join us >> for a most informative evening. Students are especially welcome. >> The event is free of charge. >> >> Tuesday, June 12th, 2012 >> >> The New School Jazz Performance Space >> 55 West 13th Street, Between 5th and 6th Avenues >> Fifth Floor >> >> Meet and Greet 6:30 P.M. >> Presentation 7:00 P.M. >> >> “Emile Berliner: Pure Audio Magic” >> >> Host: Joel Spector >> Presenter: Oliver Berliner >> Author and Inventor >> >> Despite the number 8 being of the greatest significance in audio >> history, the number 2 also looms big in our June meeting's speaker's >> AES connection. Oliver Berliner has the distinction of being the >> only AES member who resigned from our organization, not once but 2 >> times. He was also only the 2nd chairman in the history of the >> infamous Hollywood Sapphire Group (forerunner of the AES and which >> produced 2 AES presidents). He further was a co-founder of the West >> Coast, now the Los Angeles, AES Section. >> >> It’s no secret that he’s the grandson of Emile Berliner whose >> inventions of the microphone and the gramophone created today’s disc >> recording industry as well as making voice and recorded-music >> broadcasting possible; who was the co-founder of three of the >> world's leading record labels, as well as creator of the trade-mark >> showing the dog, Nipper, listening to “His Master's Voice” on a >> gramophone, which reigned for half a century as the world’s most- >> famous trade-mark. >> >> Oliver is the only one of Emile’s offspring to be in today’s >> recording or the audio products industry. He’s the author of two >> books and twenty-dozen speeches, lectures and published articles on >> music, audio and video. He’s been quoted in Business Week and the >> Wall St. Journal, and has had more Letters published in the Los >> Angeles Times than has any other reader, living or dead. He’s been >> interviewed on ABC, CBC, CBS, PBS, NBC, NDR, NPR. He has two >> patents; and produced video test equipment that led to the >> introduction of similar products by Leader Instruments, Panasonic, >> Electrohome and Hitachi...all based on his concept. >> >> Oliver comes here from Maryland to lay out some devastating >> revelations about some of the greats of audio...info that he >> promises will titillate and stimulate. He’ll show how his >> grandfather proved that micro-currents pass from one contact to >> another without their touching...the concept that made AT&T the >> world’s largest corporation and which he demonstrated to the Los >> Angeles AES decades ago, using the (original Berliner) microphone, >> then 100 years old, in the demo. He'll conclude with an astounding >> yet little known comparison of Emile Berliner's analog disc to >> Philips' digital...his “dissolve” of analog into digital. “Pure >> magic.” Come see it. >> > > Doug Pomeroy > Audio Restoration& Mastering Services > Transfers of metal parts, lacquers, > shellac and vinyl discs& tapes. > 193 Baltic St > Brooklyn, NY 11201-6173 > (718) 855-2650 > [log in to unmask] > > -- Joe Salerno