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/.

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.

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.