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AES standards meetings will be scheduled in conjunction with the AES 135th Convention in New York, NY., US., 17 to 20 October 2013.
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Latest publications
| AES66-2012 | Miniature XLR-type polarity and gender |
| AES65-2012 | Connector for surround microphones |
| AES2-2012 | Revised Measuring the performance of loudspeakers - Drive units |
| AES-1id-2012 | Revised Plane-wave tubes - Design and practice |
| AES31-2-2012 | Revised Audio file format for interchange |
| AES55-2012 | Revised MPEG Surround in an AES3 bitstream |
| AES64-2012 | Networks: Command, control, and connection management |
| AES-2id-2012 | Revised Guidelines for the AES3 interface |
| AES59-2012 | 25-way D-type connectors in balanced circuits |
| AES63-2012 | Data connector in an XLR connector shell |
| AES41-1-2012 | Rev. Audio-embedded metadata - Part 1: General |
| AES41-2-2012 | Rev. Audio-embedded metadata - Part 2: MPEG-1 Layer II or MPEG-2 LSF Layer II |
| AES41-3-2012 | Audio-embedded metadata - Part 3: AAC & HE-AAC |
| AES41-4-2012 | Audio-embedded metadata - Part 4: Dolby E |
| AES41-5-2012 | Audio-embedded metadata - Part 5: EBU loudness, true-peak, and downmix |
| 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™ |
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.
