British Section past meeting reports

Reports of past meetings and visits

10 June 2008

MPEG Surround and More - High-Quality Surround Sound For A Bandlimited World
Cornelia Falch, Fraunhofer IIS

15 April 2008

Stereo and surround microphone techniques
Helmut Wittek, Schoeps

11 March 2008

The inertial air load of a loudspeaker diaphragm
John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo and B&W Loudspeakers

12 February 2008

Loudness - issues, hurdles and solutions
Stephen Auld, Dolby Labs

15 January 2008

Champagne sound for beer money
Richard Merrick and Simon Bishop

11 December 2007

Christmas special!
Barry Fox

13 November 2007

Accurate sound reproduction from two loudspeakers in a living room
Siegfried Linkwitz

16 October 2007

Headphone measurement
Keith Howard

10 July 2007

Hearing loss: will we all get it, what are its consequences, and what can the audio industry do to help?
Professor Brian Moore, Cambridge University

6 July 2007

Technical visit
ATC Loudspeakers

12 June 2007

Nonlinear Control of Loudspeaker Systems
Wolfgang Klippel, Klippel GmbH

15 May 2007

Balanced Audio
Bill Whitlock, Jensen Transformers Inc

13 March 2007

An evening with Rupert Neve
Rupert Neve

13 February 2007

Experiments with a Multi-Element Steerable Loudspeaker Array
Laurie Fincham, THX

9 January 2007

The Balanced Mode Radiator
Graham Bank, Deben Acoustics

12 December 2006

The Evolution of Computer Game Audio
Adam Philp, Sensaura

14 November 2006

Room Perfect DSP Room Correction
Jan Abildgaard Pedersen, Lyngdorf Audio

17 October 2006

Audio is done, isn't it?
Keith Howard

11 July 2006

Active Loudspeakers
Bob Stuart, Meridian Audio

13 June 2006

The Future of High Quality Audio
Tony Faulkner, Green Room Productions

9 May 2006

Non-Contact Surface Scanning Systems for the retrieval and protection of Archived Sound Recordings
John McBride, University of Southampton

11 April 2006

Polar Plots at Low Frequencies: The Acoustic Centre
John Vanderkooy

14 March 2006

Consumer Audio Networking in the Home
Steven Harris, BridgeCo

15 February 2006

Audio in Wartime
Sean Davies

10 January 2006

AES50-2005 (High Resolution Multi-channel Audio Interconnection), and future developments in audio-over-Cat5 interconnection
Michael Page, Sony Pro-Audio Lab

13 December 2005

The Exception That Proves the Rule - The Electro-Acoustics of Disney Hall - Home of the LA Philharmonic
Ben Lilly and Billy Woodman, ATC

15 November 2005

Audio frequency analogue-line interfaces
David Birt

12 July 2005

Attractions of DSD
Mike Story, Data Conversion Systems (dCS), Cambridge, UK

Past Meeting Reports

9th December 2003

The Loudspeaker-Room Interface - Controlling Excitation of Room Modes
Rhonda Wilson and Michael Capp, Meridian Audio

11th November 2003

How we hear where sounds are coming from
Alan Palmer, MRC Institute of Hearing Research

21st October 2003

Radio Microphones - the alternative to wire
Lee Stone, Audio Limited

8th July 2003

Recent developments in EMC and safety standards
John Woodgate, J.M. Woodgate and Assoc.

10th June 2003

A Technical History of Recording, 1890-1980
Sean Davies

13th May 2003

Home Networking - an installer's view
Bruce Elliott, Residential Systems Integrator

8th April 2003

Direct Radiator Loudspeaker Systems with high Bl
John Vanderkooy, University of Waterloo

11th March 2003

Stereo Micophone Techniques
Mike Skeet

11th February 2003

Recording - Mixing Art and Science
Richard Millard

14th January 2003

Audio Watermarking
Bob Walker, BBC RandD

10th December 2002

Digital Radio
Lindsay Cornell, BBC

24th September 2002

Going, Going, Gone Digital - A BBC Radio Perspective on 'Hard Disk' Playout
Andy Baker, BBC Radio

9th July 2002

Digital Sound Projector
Paul Troughton, 1 Limited

13th June 2002

Combined Lecture and Visit to Bletchley Park
Jon Paul, Scientific Conversions

9th April 2002

Retouch: a unique audio airbrush to remove those squeaks, bleeps and creaks
Christopher Hicks and Tony Webster, CEDAR Audio

9th October 2001

Microphone Data - Is what you read what you hear?
Chris Woolf, Rycote Microphone Windshields Ltd

9th January 2001

AES-31 Audio File Interchange Standard
Mark Yonge, SSL, Joe Bull, SADiE

12th December 2000

Speech Recognition in Broadcasting
David Kirby, BBC Research and Development

18th October 2000

Technical visit to the Millenium Dome

10th October 2000

Mastering workshop
Chaired by Crispin Murray, Metropolis Studios

13th June 2000

Sound System Control Networks
Philip Nye, Engineering Arts

11th April 2000

Analogue sound synthesis
Gordon Reid, CEDAR Audio

14th March 2000

Understanding A/D and D/A converter measurements
Julian Dunn, Nanophon

8th February 2000

Student Industry Forum

11th January 2000

Surround sound in large spaces - the challenges
Christian Landone, King's College London

14th December 1999

Is Hi-Fi Dead?
Steve Harris, Hi-Fi News and Record Review

9th November 1999

Digitally interfaced microphones
Steve Harris, Crystal Audio Products Division, Cirrus Logic

12th October 1999

Measurement and simulation results comparing the binaural acoustics of various direct radiators
Neil Harris, NXT

30th June 1999

Technical Visit to Solid State Logic

15th June 1999

DVD-Audio
Robert Stuart, Meridian Audio
Kirk Paulsen, Sonic Solutions

18th May 1999

Periodicity coding at the lower limit of pitch perception
Katrina Krumbholz,Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing

13th April 1999

Super Audio CD
Peter Eastty, Sony Broadcast Europe
Paul Reynolds and Gerard Lokhoff, Philips

12th January 1999

Audio Signal Processing
David Karlin, BSS