Audio Engineering Society – Melbourne Section

On Monday September 14^th, 15 members and 10 guests assembled in the SAE Melbourne Lecture Theatre for the Annual General Meeting of the AES Melbourne Section, and to hear Michail Barabasz speak on the topic Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver.

Secretary, Peter Smerdon welcomed everyone, and explained that both the Chairman (Mark Edwards) and Vice-Chair (Graeme Huon) were not able to be present due to overseas commitments, so he would be chairing the meeting.
Peter presented the Chairman’s Report, provided to him earlier by Mark.
Then Treasurer Graham Haynes presented his Financial Report.
Then Peter passed the meeting over to Jim Barbour to conduct the Election of Section Officers and Committee Members. Each nomination was presented, and elected unopposed.

The incoming Committee is:
Graeme Huon – Chairman
Paolo Menolotto – Vice-Chairman
Graham Haynes – Treasurer
Peter Smerdon – Secretary
Mark Edwards – Committee Member
Julian Driscoll – Committee Member
Rod Staples – Committee Member
Michail Barabasz – Committee Member

With the formalities of the AGM out of the way the incoming Vice-Chair, Paolo Menolotto took over the meeting and welcomed Michail who then presented to us on his topic “Anatomy of a Loudspeaker Driver”

The substance of Michail’s presentation will be the subject of a separate post here – available shortly.

Designing Practical High End Audio Amplifiers

On Monday August 10^th 14 members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute in South Melbourne to hear Hugh Dean speak on the topic “Designing Practical High End Audio Amplifiers”

Hugh presented a potted history of his efforts with his audiophile-grade Aksa designs, giving us an insight into some of his design techniques, and tradeoffs between stability and audio quality.