Monthly Archives: August 2015

Meeting Report: August 2015 Hugh Dean on Practical Amplifier Design

Posted by psmerdon on 2015/08/16 No comments

Designing Practical High End Audio Amplifiers

On Monday August 10^th 14 members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute in South Melbourne to hear Hugh Dean speak on the topic “Designing Practical High End Audio Amplifiers”

Section Vice-Chair Graeme Huon introduces Hugh Dean. Photo – Rod Staples.

Hugh presented a potted history of his efforts with his audiophile-grade Aksa designs, giving us an insight into some of his design techniques, and tradeoffs between stability and audio quality. Continue reading “Meeting Report: August 2015 Hugh Dean on Practical Amplifier Design” »

Meeting Notice: Sept 14th AGM plus Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver

Posted by psmerdon on 2015/08/11 No comments

Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Melbourne Section of the AES will be held on
Monday September 14^th 2015 at 7:30pm at The SAE Institute – Lecture Theatre, 235 Normanby Rd South Melbourne (directions below)

The short AGM will be followed by a presentation by Michail Barabasz on the topic

Anatomy of the Loudspeaker Driver

Michail’s wide-ranging talk will cover the full range of considerations affecting the successful design of loudspeaker systems. They will include topics like the listening room (and its effect on loudspeaker reproduction), loudspeaker component parts, post Plessey Rola (what has changed in the past 40 years), speaker testing (why measure, what should be measured, and QA testing), how pro-audio, monitor and HiFi speakers differ, and design software. Continue reading “Meeting Notice: Sept 14th AGM plus Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver” »

Vale Graeme Cohen: News from Adelaide

Posted by psmerdon on 2015/08/03 No comments

Vale: Graeme Cohen – Inventor, Engineer.

Many thanks to David Murphy, Adelaide Chair, for this sad news. Below is the notice he issued.

Members will be saddened to learn that Graeme recently passed away. We offer our condolences to his family and friends. His funeral will be at 11:00 am, Tuesday 4^th August, 2015 White Lady Chapel, 491 North East Rd, Hillcrest SA 5086