Not only for our student members, but for everyone: we have a Facebook group! With over 70 members and growing, it’s an alternative way to keep in touch with other members and find out what’s going on in the UK section. Join the group at at Facebook here.
The report on our April lecture by Gordon Reid of CEDAR Audio, ‘An introduction to forensic audio‘, is now available on our website. For those of you interested in Audio Forensics, there’s also an AES Conference in Denmark next week on the same topic. For more information see the main website: 39th International AES Conference.
The recording for the March lecture on new control techniques for large-scale loudspeaker arrays has now been posted for download! Please see the lecture page for more details, and the link.
John Vanderkooy is a well-known researcher and presenter on loudspeaker technology. Since he’s in the UK, he’s kindly offered to give us a talk on active absorbers, his recent field of research. John’s lectures are engaging and accessible, and this is a must-attend for anyone with an interest in acoustics and loudspeaker technology. The lecture is at the usual place, at 18:30 on Tuesday 27th April – for more details, please see the Event page.
Andy Quested, Head of Technology at BBC R&D, gave a fascinating lecture to us recently on the new problems in AV synchronisation brought about by the arrival of HD technology. The recording is now available for download on the event page.
Philip Hobbs of Linn Records gave a talk on how this audiophile record label has embraced developments in digital online music distribution. The full meeting report is now published here.
Dr. Lauren Stewart of Goldsmiths University, London will present a lecture on Thursday 10th June entitled “When All Songs Sound the Same: Insights into the Musical Brain” – click here for more information.
The next AES Convention, due to take place in London in May 2010, recently had a minor alteration to its dates. The conference will run from Saturday 22nd May to Tuesday 25th May, while the exhibition will run from Sunday 23rd to Tuesday 25th. The Convention will take place at the Novotel London West Convention Centre.
The twice-yearly AES Convention is the most significant event in the AES calendar, bringing together audio professionals around the world for the leading technical conference and trade show for all sectors of the professional audio industry. The Call for Papers (pdf) deadline for the conference is 18th December, so time is running out if you have findings to present. For further details and updates on the London AES Convention, please visit the Convention website at http://www.aes.org/events/128/.
Click here for audio recording and report of this lecture
An excellent Tutorial by Neville Thiele can be found here
Neville Thiele’s name is known to anyone who has ever taken an interest in the practical design of moving coil loudspeakers, through the Thiele-Small parameters that bear his name and that of Richard Small. In 1961 he wrote a seminal paper on the design of vented (reflex) loudspeakers that – although it was largely ignored for 10 years until reproduced in the AES Journal – is now acknowledged as initiating the filter parameter based approach to loudspeaker analysis and synthesis which today is routinely used by the audio industry at large. In recognition of this, in 1994 he was awarded the AES Silver Medal.
In this interview-based lecture, Neville Thiele will talk about what led up to this breakthrough and its significance to the speaker design process. He will then give three short presentations on loudspeaker-related topics: filter-assisted bass alignments and novel crossover approaches; driver ageing effects; and driver impedance correction in crossover networks. Questions will then be invited from the audience.
The lecture is open to all, 18:30 for 19:00 start, and will be held at the Royal Academy of Engineering in London.
A fascinating line-up of speakers has been arranged for AES UK Section lectures for the next few months. Topics range from a trip around the innards of an A/V amplifier (October); an interview with the godfather of rational loudspeaker design, Neville Thiele, in November; through Peter Eastty’s particular view on digital filter design (”How I Does Filters”, Christmas Lecture); via A/V synchronisation (January/February), line arrays for live sound (March); forensic audio (April); and the restoration and remastering of the Beatles’ legendary albums (May).
Meetings are free and open to all. See the forthcoming meetings page for full details of the lectures, and the meetings information page for locations.
