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Upcoming meetings

AES standards meetings will be held in conjunction with the AES 132nd Convention in Budapest, Hungary, October 2012.

A meeting schedule will be published here in due course.

Most meetings are open to all eligible to join working groups

Reports from the New York meetings, 2011-10, are posted here.

Latest publications

AES62-2011 Modified XL3 Connector for Digital Audio
AES60-2011 Core audio metadata
AES57-2011 Metadata - Audio object structures for preservation and restoration
AES50-2011 Revised High-resolution multi-channel audio interconnection (HRMAI)
AES-R6-2011 Revised Guidelines for AES50
AES-21id-2011 High-resolution audio on Blu-ray Disc™
AES42-2010 Revised Digital interface for microphones
AES-14id-2010Universal jack for quarter-inch plugs
AES-16id-2010Stylus dimensions and selection
AES41-2009Recoding data set for audio bit-rate reduction
AES3-2009 (multipart)Serial transmission format for two-channel linearly represented digital audio data, pt. 1 to 4

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Technical standards are continually being developed under the auspices of the society. Many of them have since been accepted by international standards organizations as the model for their standards on the same material. This activity helps to keep the AES and its members at the technological forefront of the audio industry.

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