Category: Past Events and Meetings

Audio Digitisation at the NFSA

More for all – increasing capacity and capability.

On Monday November 16^th, 19 members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute in South Melbourne to hear Ross Garrett of the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra tell us about their major project of updating the systems used for digitisation of their sound assets.

On Monday September 14^th 25 members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute in South Melbourne, and after a short AGM (see separate report) Michail Barabasz of Lorantz Audio gave a presentation on “The Anatomy of the Loudspeaker Driver”.

Michail started by mentioning that he often heard comments about a speaker’s inadequacies when the issue was, in fact the room. He then went into a brief explanation of room effects and ways to separate the speaker performance & room effects by the use of software like Room Eq Wizard, a free room analysis program.

On Monday September 14^th, 15 members and 10 guests assembled in the SAE Melbourne Lecture Theatre for the Annual General Meeting of the AES Melbourne Section, and to hear Michail Barabasz speak on the topic Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver.

Secretary, Peter Smerdon welcomed everyone, and explained that both the Chairman (Mark Edwards) and Vice-Chair (Graeme Huon) were not able to be present due to overseas commitments, so he would be chairing the meeting.
Peter presented the Chairman’s Report, provided to him earlier by Mark.
Then Treasurer Graham Haynes presented his Financial Report.
Then Peter passed the meeting over to Jim Barbour to conduct the Election of Section Officers and Committee Members. Each nomination was presented, and elected unopposed.

The incoming Committee is:
Graeme Huon – Chairman
Paolo Menolotto – Vice-Chairman
Graham Haynes – Treasurer
Peter Smerdon – Secretary
Mark Edwards – Committee Member
Julian Driscoll – Committee Member
Rod Staples – Committee Member
Michail Barabasz – Committee Member

With the formalities of the AGM out of the way the incoming Vice-Chair, Paolo Menolotto took over the meeting and welcomed Michail who then presented to us on his topic “Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver”

The substance of Michail’s presentation will be the subject of a separate post here – available shortly.

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”

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.