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VOLU sustaining ME 50, NO. 11 member AES organizations AES The Audio Engineering Society recognizes with gratitude the financial The Society invites applications for sustaining membership. Informa- support given by its sustaining members, which enables the work of tion may be obtained from the Chair, Sustaining Memberships JOURNAL OF THE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY the Society to be extended. Addresses and brief descriptions of the Committee, Audio Engineering Society, 60 East 42nd St., Room business activities of the sustaining members appear in the October 2520, New York, New York 10165-2520, USA, tel: 212-661-8528. issue of the Journal. Fax: 212-682-0477. AUDIO / ACOUSTICS / APPLICATIONS ACO Pacific, Inc. Event Electronics, LLC Pro-Bel Limited Air Studios Ltd. Ferrotec (USA) Corporation Pro-Sound News Volume 50 Number 11 2002 November AKG Acoustics GmbH Focusrite Audio Engineering Ltd. Radio Free Asia AKM Semiconductor, Inc. Fostex America, a division of Foster Electric Rane Corporation Amber Technology Limited U.S.A., Inc. Recording Connection ENGINEERING SOCIETY THE AUDIO JOURNAL OF AMS Neve plc Fraunhofer IIS-A Rocket Network ATC Loudspeaker Technology Ltd. FreeSystems Private Limited Royal National Institute for the Blind In this issue… Audio Limited FTG Sandar TeleCast AS RTI Tech Pte. Ltd. Audiomatica S.r.l. Harman Becker Rycote Microphone Windshields Ltd. Noisy Decay Parameters HHB Communications Ltd. Audio Media/IMAS Publishing Ltd. SADiE Innova SON Audio Precision, Inc. Sanctuary Studios Ltd. Innovative Electronic Designs (IED), Inc. AudioScience, Inc. Sekaku Electron Ind. Co., Ltd. Improved Time-Frequency International Federation of the Phonographic Sennheiser Electronic Corporation Audio-Technica U.S., Inc. Industry Analysis AudioTrack Corporation Shure Inc. JBL Professional Snell & Wilcox Ltd. Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. Jensen Transformers Inc. B & W Loudspeakers Limited Solid State Logic, Ltd. Expanding Surround Sound Kawamura Electrical Laboratory Sony Broadcast & Professional Europe BMP Recording KEF Audio (UK) Limited Sound Devices LLC British Broadcasting Corporation Kenwood U.S.A. Corporation Sound On Sound Ltd. Synthesizing Surround Sound BSS Audio Klark Teknik Group (UK) Plc Soundcraft Electronics Ltd. Cadac Electronics PLC Klipsch L.L.C. Soundtracs plc Calrec Audio Laboratories for Information Sowter Audio Transformers Features… Canford Audio plc L-Acoustics US SRS Labs, Inc. CEDAR Audio Ltd. Leitch Technology Corporation Stage Accompany Celestion International Limited Lindos Electronics 113th Convention Report, Sterling Sound, Inc. Magnetic Reference Laboratory (MRL) Inc. Cerwin-Vega, Incorporated Studer North America Inc. ClearOne Communications Corp. Martin Audio Ltd. Los Angeles Meridian Audio Limited Studer Professional Audio AG Community Professional Loudspeakers, Inc. Tannoy Limited Crystal Audio Products/Cirrus Logic Inc. Metropolis Group Bluetooth and Middle Atlantic Products Inc. TASCAM D.A.S. Audio, S.A. Mosses & Mitchell THAT Corporation D.A.T. Ltd. Wireless Networking M2 Gauss Corp. TOA Electronics, Inc. dCS Ltd. Music Plaza Pte. Ltd. Touchtunes Music Corp. Deltron Emcon Limited Georg Neumann GmbH United Entertainment Media, Inc. 11th Regional Convention, Tokyo— Digidesign Neutrik AG Uniton AG Digigram NVision University of Derby Call for Papers Digital Audio Disc Corporation NXT (New Transducers Ltd.) University of Salford Dolby Laboratories, Inc. University of Surrey, Dept. of Sound 1 Limited 2002 NOVEMBER DRA Laboratories Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Recording DTS, Inc. Technology VidiPax DYNACORD, EVI Audio GmbH Outline snc Wenger Corporation Eastern Acoustic Works, Inc. PRIMEDIA Business Magazines & Media Inc. J. M. Woodgate and Associates Eminence Speaker LLC Prism Sound Yamaha Research and Development STANDARDS COMMITTEE AUDIO ENGINEERING SOCIETY, INC. INTERNATIONAL HEADQUARTERS John P. Nunn Mark Yonge 60 East 42nd Street, Room 2520, New York, NY 10165-2520, USA Chair Secretary, Standards Manager Tel: +1 212 661 8528 . Fax: +1 212 682 0477 Bruce Olson Yoshizo Sohma E-mail: HQ@aes . Internet: http://www.aes.org Vice Chair, Western Hemisphere Vice Chair, International ADMINISTRATION SC-02 SUBCOMMITTEE ON DIGITAL AUDIO Roger K. Furness Executive Director John P. Nunn Chair Robert A. Finger Vice Chair Sandra J. Requa Executive Assistant to the Executive Director Working Groups OFFICERS 2002/2003 TELLERS Christopher V. Freitag Chair SC-02-01 Digital Audio Measurement Techniques Richard C. Cabot, I. Dennis, M. Keyhl Kees A. Immink President WOMEN IN AUDIO Ronald Streicher President-Elect Kees A. Immink Chair SC-02-02 Digital Input-Output Interfacing: Julian Dunn Garry Margolis Past President Robert A. Finger, John Grant TECHNICAL COUNCIL Jim Anderson Vice President SC-02- 05 Synchronization: Robin Caine Eastern Region, USA/Canada Wieslaw V. Woszczyk Chair James A. Kaiser Vice President Jürgen Herre and SC-03 SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE PRESERVATION AND RESTORATION Central Region, USA/Canada Vice Chairs Robert Schulein OF AUDIO RECORDING Bob Moses Vice President, Western Region, USA/Canada TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Ted Sheldon Chair Dietrich Schüller Vice Chair Søren Bech Vice President ACOUSTICS & SOUND Working Groups Northern Region, Europe REINFORCEMENT Markus Erne Mendel Kleiner Chair SC-03-01 Analog Recording: J. G. McKnight Vice President, Central Region, Europe Kurt Graffy Vice Chair SC-03-02 Transfer Technologies: Lars Gaustad, Greg Faris Daniel Zalay ARCHIVING, RESTORATION AND SC-03-04 Storage and Handling of Media: Ted Sheldon, Gerd Cyrener Vice President, Southern Region, Europe DIGITAL LIBRARIES SC-03-06 Digital Library and Archives Systems: William Storm Mercedes Onorato Vice President, David Ackerman Chair Joe Bean, Werner Deutsch Latin American Region AUDIO FOR Neville Thiele TELECOMMUNICATIONS SC-03-12 Forensic Audio: Tom Owen, M. McDermott Vice President, International Region Bob Zurek Chair Eddy Bogh Brixen Andrew Bright Vice Chair Han Tendeloo Secretary Marshall Buck Treasurer CODING OF AUDIO SIGNALS SC-04 SUBCOMMITTEE ON ACOUSTICS James Johnston and Jürgen Herre Cochairs GOVERNORS Mendel Kleiner Chair Mark Ureda Vice Chair AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO Karl-Otto Bäder Richard S. Stroud Chair Working Groups Curtis Hoyt Tim Nind Vice Chair SC-04-01 Acoustics and Sound Source Modeling Roy Pritts HIGH-RESOLUTION AUDIO Richard H. Campbell, Wolfgang Ahnert Don Puluse Malcolm Hawksford Chair SC-04-02 Characterization of Acoustical Materials David Robinson Vicki R. Melchior and Peter D’Antonio, Trevor J. Cox Annemarie Staepelaere Takeo Yamamoto Vice Chairs Roland Tan SC-04-03 Loudspeaker Modeling and Measurement LOUDSPEAKERS & HEADPHONES David Prince, Steve Hutt Kunimara Tanaka David Clark Chair Juha Backman Vice Chair SC-04-04 Microphone Measurement and Characterization COMMITTEES David Josephson, Jackie Green MICROPHONES & APPLICATIONS AWARDS David Josephson Chair SC-04-07 Listening Tests: David Clark, T. Nousaine Roy Pritts Chair Wolfgang Niehoff Vice Chair CONFERENCE POLICY MULTICHANNEL & BINAURAL SC-05 SUBCOMMITTEE ON INTERCONNECTIONS Søren Bech Chair AUDIO TECHNOLOGIES Francis Rumsey Chair Ray Rayburn Chair John Woodgate Vice Chair CONVENTION POLICY & FINANCE Gunther Theile Vice Chair Marshall Buck Chair Working Groups NETWORK AUDIO SYSTEMS EDUCATION Jeremy Cooperstock Chair SC-05-02 Audio Connectors Don Puluse Chair Robert Rowe and Thomas Ray Rayburn, Werner Bachmann Sporer Vice Chairs FUTURE DIRECTIONS SC-05-03 Audio Connector Documentation Kees A. Immink Chair AUDIO RECORDING & STORAGE Dave Tosti-Lane, J. Chester HISTORICAL SYSTEMS Derk Reefman Chair SC-05-05 Grounding and EMC Practices J. G. (Jay) McKnight Chair Bruce Olson, Jim Brown Ted Sheldon Vice Chair PERCEPTION & SUBJECTIVE Donald J. Plunkett Chair Emeritus EVALUATION OF AUDIO SIGNALS Chair Durand Begault SC-06 SUBCOMMITTEE ON NETWORK AND FILE TRANSFER OF AUDIO LAWS & RESOLUTIONS Søren Bech and Eiichi Miyasaka Ron Streicher Chair Vice Chairs Robin Caine Chair Steve Harris Vice Chair MEMBERSHIP/ADMISSIONS SIGNAL PROCESSING Francis Rumsey Chair Ronald Aarts Chair Working Groups NOMINATIONS James Johnston and Christoph M. SC-06-01 Audio-File Transfer and Exchange Garry Margolis Chair Musialik Vice Chairs Mark Yonge, Brooks Harris PUBLICATIONS POLICY STUDIO PRACTICES & PRODUCTION SC-06-02 Audio Applications Using the High Performance Serial Richard H. Small Chair George Massenburg Chair Bus (IEEE: 1394): John Strawn, Bob Moses Alan Parsons, David Smith and REGIONS AND SECTIONS Mick Sawaguchi Vice Chairs SC-06-04 Internet Audio Delivery System Subir Pramanik Chair Karlheinz Brandenburg TRANSMISSION & BROADCASTING STANDARDS Stephen Lyman Chair SC-06-06 Audio Metadata John P. Nunn Chair Neville Thiele Vice Chair C. Chambers Correspondence to AES officers and committee chairs should be addressed to them at the society’s international headquarters. AES REGIONAL OFFICES Journal of the Audio Engineering Society Europe Conventions AES Zevenbunderslaan 142/9, BE-1190 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: +32 2 345 (ISSN 0004-7554), Volume 50, Number 11, 2002 November 7971, Fax: +32 2 345 3419, E-mail for convention information: Published monthly, except January/February and July/August when published bi- euroconventions@aes. monthly, by the Audio Engineering Society, 60 East 42nd Street, New York, New Europe Services Yo rk 10165-2520, USA, Telephone: +1 212 661 8528. Fax: +1 212 682 0477. B.P. 50, FR-94364 Bry Sur Marne Cedex, France, Tel: +33 1 4881 4632, Periodical postage paid at New York, New York, and at an additional Fax: +33 1 4706 0648,