AES involvement with
digital audio engineering standardization began in 1977, and
continues now with the AES Standards Subcommittee SC-02. The
current published standards are listed
here, and available
for download here. The current projects are listed
here.
The
history of the activities of the AES in digital audio engineering and
standardization from 1977 to 1984 was summarized by Bart Locanthi in
"Standardization in Professional Digital Audio Engineering at
the AES", delivered at the 80th Convention, 1986 March. The
details of this history are told in the minutes of the meetings of
the "Digital Audio Standards Committee" and the "Digital
Audio Technical Committee" during that time, and in the
technical reports presented to those meetings, which were published
in the AES Journal, as listed on the last page of the Locanthi
Preprint, and repeated below.
The Locanthi Preprint is
included with the AES "Electronic Library", but the
minutes and reports have not been included there, and so that history
is not generally easily available. We have therefore obtained
permission from the AES Journal and the AES Standards Committee to
post the Locanthi AES Preprint
2320 , and to scan and post the minutes and reports as shown in
the links below. These PDF files are in the "Searchable Image
(Exact)" format.
The Preprint, minutes, and all reports,
are Copyright © 1977...1986 Audio Engineering Society. This
material is posted here with permission of the AES. Internal or
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DIGITAL AUDIO STANDARDS COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
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Date of Meetings |
Locations |
Minutes published in |
With reports (authors and titles) |
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1977 Dec. 1 & 2 |
Snowbird, Salt Lake City, UT |
Youngquist, "Sampling Frequency
Considerations". |
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1978 Feb. 1 & 2 |
Atlanta, GA |
Burkowitz, "Comments on Technical Factors to
be Standardized". |
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1978 Apr. 29 & 30 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Not Published |
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1978 Aug. 24 & 25 |
St. Paul, MN |
Not Published |
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1980 Nov. 4 |
New York, NY |
EIAJ, "Consumer Use PCM
Encoder-Decoder 1979-6". |
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DIGITAL AUDIO TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETINGS |
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1980 May 4 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Doi, "On the Sampling Rate for Digital Audio
Recorders". |
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1980 Oct. 30 |
New York, NY |
Kato, "Digital Audio Activities in
Japan". |
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1981 May 10 |
Los Angeles, CA |
Yougquist, Stockham, and Heaslett, "Appendix
1, Review of Proposal to IEC WG 16". |
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1981 Nov. 2 |
New York, NY |
(none) |
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1982 Mar. 3 |
Montreaux, Switzerland |
(none) |
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1982 Oct. 22 |
Anaheim, CA |
Reports of the Meetings of the Working
Groups: |
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1983 Mar. 13 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
(none) |
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1983 Oct. 7 |
New York, NY |
(none) |
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1984 Mar. 26 |
Paris, France |
(none) |
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1984 Oct. 7 |
New York, NY |
(none) |
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Note that the pages given are the first and last
for the minutes plus any accompanying reports. In many cases, only
the even pages have text of the committee
minutes and reports,
with unrelated advertisements on the odd pages.
J McKnight,
Chair, AES Historical Committee
2005-01-11
