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Meeting Notice: May 2025 – Zenith Records Tour

The next meeting of the AES Melbourne Section will be an in-person facility tour and presentation held on Monday 5th May 2025 at 7:30 pm

The meeting will be a site visit to Zenith Records in Brunswick.

Tour numbers are limited, so you will need to book at

https://www.trybooking.com/DBBEV

Priority will be given to AES members, but non-members are welcome to book and will be allocated any spare spots.

Paul Rigby, Zenith’s co-founder will conduct a tour of their manufacturing facility and speak to us on:

Vinyl Record Manufacturing

From Original Master to Finished Product

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Our Next Meeting – April?

We thought we had a topic and speaker arranged for April, but they have become* suddenly unavailable.

Right now we are working on a replacement for the April meeting. It is likely to be after Easter.

As soon as we know, you’ll know.

Stay tuned!

Section’s 50th Anniversary: Our Anniversary Dinner – 9th Dec 2024

This month we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the formation of the AES Melbourne Section with a dinner at Club Ringwood.

Sixteen members and guests attended, with two last-minute dropouts, and several apologies from long-time members. It was a convivial evening with lots of friendly chat and reminiscences, along with some very fine food indeed.

A photo of Chair Graeme Huon standing at the microphone welcoming the members and guests
Chair Graeme Huon welcomes the members and guests

Section Chair, Graeme Huon welcomed everybody, thanking the Committee, our sponsor Amphenol Australia, and Paolo Menolotto for facilitating the sponsorship. He also thanked Secretary Peter Smerdon for all his work in organising the event. In remarking on the formation of the Section in December 1974 he remarked how the original Committee included luminaries of the audio industry at the time such as Wulf Gray (Simon Gray Pty Ltd) Graham Thirkell (Optronics), Brian Horman (Klarion), Roger Savage (Armstrong Studios & Soundfirm), and John Ryan (ABC).

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New Content: The Melbourne Section’s History is Documented

The logo of the AES Melbourne Section


To mark the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Melbourne Section of the Audio Engineering Section we have just prepared a history of the Section, its formation, and activities.

It is available on this website, and is made up of three sections:
The broad overview: https://aesmelbourne.org.au/section-history/
The Regional Conventions (1984-1996): https://aesmelbourne.org.au/conventions/
and
Historical Meeting Notices: https://aesmelbourne.org.au/historical-meeting-notices/