AES Technical Committee

Network Audio Systems

Chair:    Umberto Zanghieri    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    Thomas Sporer    (Send E-mail)
Vice Chair:    Kevin Gross    (Send E-mail)

To inform the AES and other organizations on issues pertinent to our committee's focus area, with an emphasis on local and wide-area networks. The emphasis accompanies a major increase in network scale, bandwidth and quality of service, making it possible to consider brand new classes of audiovisual applications, as well as unconventional and high-performance implementations of existing ones.


Areas of Concentration

  1. Research, Development Involving Networked Audio Systems
  2. Audio Systems Connected Via Large Scale High Speed Networks

Recent/Planned Activities

  • 127th AES Convention Workshop: Redundancy in Audio Networks
  • AES Whitepaper: Best Practices in Network Audio
  • 125th AES Convention Workshop: Audio Networking for the Pros
  • 119th AES Convention Workshop on Networked Audio Systems -- What, How and Why?
  • 117th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming DSD audio performance
  • 114th AES Convention Workshop on LAN delivery of audio and application to digital libraries
  • 109th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming 12 channel 24bit/96kHz audio performance
  • 107th AES Convention Special Event - Streaming AC-3 audio performance
  • 105th AES Convention Special Event - Internet2 "Round Table" Forum
  • AES Technical Council White Paper on Internet 2 " Technology Report TC - NAS1/98 "


Meeting Report:

These documents do not necessarily express the official position of the AES on the issues discussed at these meetings, and only represent the views of committee members participating in the discussion. Any unauthorized use of these publications is prohibited. Authorization must be obtained from the Executive Director of the AES: E-mail, Tel: +1 212 661 8528, Address: 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA.

2009-10-15     TC-NAS minutes at AES 127
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 127th Convention in New York

2009-5-8     Network Audio TC minutes AES 126
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 126th in Munich

2008-12-6     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 125th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 125th in San Francisco

2008-5-18     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 124th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 124th in Amsterdam

2007-10-15     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 123rd
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 123rd in New York

2007-5-30     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 122nd
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 122nd in Vienna

2006-10-9     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 121st
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 121st in San Francisco

2006-5-28     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 120th
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 120th in Paris

2005-6-3     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 118
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 118th in Barcelona

2004-11-2     Network Audio TC Minutes: AES 117
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 117th in San Francisco

2003-11-11     Network Audio TC Minutes AES 115
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 115th in New York

2003-10-7     Network Audio TC Minutes AES 114
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 114th in Amsterdam

2002-10-14     Network Audio TC minutes AES 113
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 113th in Los Angeles

2002-9-25     Network Audio TC minutes AES 107
Description: Minutes from committee meeting at the 107th. Details of special events offered by committee.

2002-9-25     Network Audio TC minutes AES 112
Description: Summary of non-meeting from AES Convention - Munich

2001-12-16     Network Audio TC minutes AES 109
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report from the AES 109th in NY.

1999-1-10     Network Audio TC minutes 9.98
Description: Network Audio Systems Technical Committee Meeting Report ---including, information on committee's activities during the last AES convention in San Francisco in September.


Technical Report:

2009-6-23     White Paper (Draft): Best Practices in Network Audio
Description: Pre-publication of the NAS White Paper (revision AESTD1003v1 2009-06-04)

2009-5-8     Emerging Technologies
Description: Recent trends or initiatives


Other:

1999-1-27     Brief: AES visits White House
Description: The AES was invited to the White House to speak about Music and Audio using Advanced Networks


Committee Members

 Atau Tanaka  David Wessel  David Zicarelli 
 German Casado  Hermes Wordemann  Jonathan Kay 
 Jun Murai  Miguel de Miguel  Oscar Cabezudo 
 Philip Nye  Robert Rowe  Brenda Ferry 
 Mark Gilbert  Chris Jubien  Stephen Jones 
 Varuni Witana  Marc Benard  Herve LeDevelat 
 Andrew Hollis  Joffrey Heyraud  Mark Stebbeds 
 Rick Kreifeldt  Andreas Floros  Anders Magnusson 
 Johan Berg  Ulrich Kraemer  Frederic Taury 
 Vene Garcia  Yves Ansade  Anton Prins 
 Tim Shuttleworrth  Zeb Wall  Alexander Carot 
 Philip Foulkes  James Dibley  Peter Stevens 
 Harold Okai-Tettey  David Hoatson  Carl Conrad 
 Chris Gaunt  Frederick Ampel  Elizabeth Cohen 
 Dave Burnor  Wieslaw Woszczyk  Tom Schlum 
 John Strawn  Kendall Castor-Perry  Bob Moses 
 Karlheinz Brandenburg  Conrad Cooke  Steven Harris 
 Marina Bosi  Stefan Shibata  Chris Fehring 
 Kevin Heber  Alastair Walker  Lars Jonsson 
 Thomas Sporer  Robert Sloan  Morten Lave 
 Aki Makivirta  Umberto Zanghieri  Kevin Gross 
 Peter Otto  Bernhard Grill  Michael Page 
 Robert Ellis-Geiger  Ram Shenkar  John Grant 
 William L Martens  Andrew Elder  Stephen Turner 
 Gerald Schuller  Chris Chambers  Alain Renaud 
 Juergen Peissig  Brent Harshbarger  Jeremy Cooperstock 
 Mathias Coinchon  Tom Blank  Stephen Pope 
 Olaf Titel  Florian Lenzner  Peter Alyea 
 Nuno Fonseca  Richard Foss  Garth Wiebe 
 Chris Chafe  Michelle Daniels  Robert Gurdan 
 Nyasha Chigwamba  Dale Rochon  Aidan Williams 
 Christiane Bangert  Christoph Pfeiffer  Robert Economaki 
 Larry Bryan  Nathan Brock  Bradford Benn 
 Jeremie Weber  Osedum Igumbor 

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