Subscription Information & Membership Application Form
Club year commences 1st of July.
Subscription rate is $65 per year.
Pro Rata fees apply for joining during the Club year - please inquire.

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Melbourne Audio Club, Inc.
PO Box 27
Forest Hill VIC 3131

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Apart from coming along to our monthly General Meetings, membership entitlements include full participation in the Club's home meetings and access to the Melbourne Audio News in PDF format as well as to our private Facebook page.

Melbourne Audio News

Melbourne Audio Club publishes a monthly magazine in PDF format, the Melbourne Audio News (MAN) which details forthcoming home meetings, reviews the past month's activities and contains many articles of interest. We have many friends in other audio clubs and societies in Australia and Internationally and articles of interest from these other clubs often make it into our magazine as well.

Facebook group page

The Club has a Facebook Groups page where club members can post topics of interest as well as joining in discussions of all things audio related.

Home Meetings

In addition to the Monthly Meeting the club offers a rich variety of musical and technical pursuits via home meetings. These meetings which are held in members homes are at the core of the clubs activities. Members meet regularly to listen to a diverse range of music, compare audio equipment or discuss technical issues and the current interest groups include...

Classical

The Classical group, like most other groups within the club. meets monthly in members’ homes and boasts a regular attendance on average of about ten. It is up to the evening’s host to select the musical programme and in view of the wide diversity of personal taste, this ensures that over time, an amazing variety of music, composers and artists are surveyed.

The field of music loosely termed "classical"; is vast and our programmes bear this out with content running the gamut from renaissance through baroque, 18thcentury classical and 19th century romantic to 20th century music in all forms, styles and genres. This includes orchestral, chamber, choral, instrumental and vocal. There is much lively discussion about music, the performances and of course the recordings themselves. This adds an extra dimension of enjoyment unavailable with solo listening and also provides a useful shop window on possible additions to one’s own music library.

A great deal of fun and enjoyment is had by all at our "classical nights" and one never fails to learn something new at each evening form those who are knowledgeable about things classical. As such, these evening are also an ideal stepping stone for newcomers to classical music as the great variety of musical experiences on offer can serve to point the direction of a burgeoning musical taste.

Needless to say, the convenor of the group is always appreciative of ideas for the programmes and offers of home venues in which we present them. We hope to see many new faces at our monthly get - togethers in the future.

DIY / Audio Action

Do you like to tweak? Do you like to make your own amplification, speakers, interconnects etc? Then this is the group for you! The Audio Action Group meets to do all of this and to discuss modifications to home grown and commercially purchased Hi - fi equipment. After all, there is always something to tweak! In the past year, members of the DIY group have built IMP analysers that allow the frequency response of speakers and amplifiers to be easily measured. A subwoofer project was completed where some 40 members built their own sub woofer based on a design of another member. There is a strong interest in valve and solid state amplifier construction along with a number of avid speaker builders. The group though will have a go at anything, previously having modified CD players, turntables and the like.

A number of members have web pages which go into their ideas and designs in more detail. These can be found on our links section. Each year, members' constructions are demonstrated to the rest of the club at general meetings.

GASS

The title is a construct of the full title "Gerald's Chicken Sandwich Audio and Social Day". What the hell is it, GASS? The rules are evolving. But what is clear we all have a great time. Social chit chat, some audio stuff and otherwise just an enjoyable day.

Home Theatre

The group meets to listen to and view the latest in Audio Visual and Home Theatre extravaganza. Equipment used include video projection, laser discs players and the latest DVD surround sound set ups. A varied list of titles including new releases, older movies and the latest musical selections mean something is usually available to meet all tastes of members. In addition discussion of the latest issues in Home Theatre such as DVD, DTS, Dolby and other digital processing forms keep members up to date with the latest technical happenings.

Jazz

All styles of Jazz are catered for, as diverse as the members, although it is fair to say modern jazz is the most popular of the different styles. From the current crop of new jazz musicians like Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, Christian McBride to the renowned jazz giants Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Earl Hines, James Morrison and Miles Davis, the group listens to a many and varied catalogue. Members of the group arrange visits to many jazz concerts and festivals such as the annual Wangaratta Jazz Festival and the Melbourne Jazz Festival.

Kaleidoscope

As the name suggests, the Kaleidoscope group listen to a wide variety of music. Some of it is middle of the road, some of it is all over the road! A recent article in the magazine described a typical Kaleidoscope meeting as miscellaneous, varied and with a good ear to audio quality. Each evening can run the gamut of musical genres, from light classical to hard rock, with much in between. Also not forgetting what may be described as World music and music to get you into the mood for just about anything.

Opera

The Opera group meets every month with a view to exploring both popular and lessor known works of the opera repertoire. Opera being primarily a visual medium, many works are presented in the video medium where possible. However, we do listen to L.P's and C.D's when appropriate, particularly where performances have never been filmed.

We have recently presented performances of Bizet's "Carmen", Verdi's" Attilla"(a forgotten masterpiece.) and Carl Zeller's "The BirdSeller", a delightful Viennese operetta.

Audio only presentations are accompanied by detailed notes and libretto, so that participants are made familiar with the operas. We urge anyone with even a slight interest in opera to sample our evenings and become more enlightened.

Pop Music

Historically many of the Melbourne Audio Club's home meeting activities have focussed on audio areas with reasonably defined formats eg. Classical, Opera, Jazz. POP Music in keeping with Kaleidoscope and, to some degree, Acoustic endeavours to widen those boundaries to accommodate the vast variety of music enjoyed in popular culture.

Faber's Companion To 20th Century Popular Music (1990) describes fifty - two identifiable genres/styles of Popular music stretching from Bebop to Western Swing freely acknowledging that this is merely a subset of the total range. With such an extremely broad range of material to choose from we decided to set a central theme for each POP meeting so particular styles/time periods etc could be explored in a little more depth than otherwise would be the case.

It's our ambition to ensure that in the fullness of time ultimately everything will be dealt with. For example, so far we've enjoyed The Fifties - 1950 to 1955, Dylan and Cohen - Rock poets and their Covers, The Eighties - with a special focus on material released then by artists previously 60's icons, Blues - a general overview. Meetings already in the pipeline include, Soul Time - for Motown maniacs, High voltage Rock - loud music!, The Summer of Love - late 60's psychedelia, Gram Parsons - the legend and its legacy, Funk - thank you George (not Bill) Clinton.

Our meetings are pretty relaxed and any excuse for a barbecue and a bottle of wine will do. In wintertime we'll forego the barbie but not the wine! Participation is mandatory, guests must bring music to share. Vinyl is as welcome as the 'little round shiny things' and experimentation with equipment is commonplace.