On Wednesday June 3^rd twenty-four AES members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute Lecture Theatre in South Melbourne to hear renowned designer Ed Cherry present a talk on

“Feedback and Distortion in Audio Amplifiers”

Ed started his presentation by outlining the early years at Bell Labs, where Ed later worked, where the impetus to reducing distortion (particularly of the intermod variety) was to improve the audio-channel carrying capacity of their existing copper wire network (which comprised 50% of their capital assets) by multiplexing signals without the limitations of interference from intermodulation products.

On Monday 20th April, 26 AES members and visitors gathered at the SAE Institute Lecture Theatre to hear Audinate founder and Chief Technology Officer Aidan Williams speak to us on the subject of

Digital Audio Networking with Dante.

He explained that the company Audinate is a technology startup spun off from National ICT Australia (NICTA) to commercialize a project which grew into the Dante audio networking solution.
He indicated that the company has offices in Sydney, Portland (USA), and Brighton (UK), with further expansion imminent.

He started his presentation with a comprehensive primer in “Networking 101 for Audio Professionals”