Re: AES 133rd Convention in San Francisco
David, thank you for acting as the communications hub and beer adviser. I met some really interesting and nice folks as a result.
I'll leave it to others to talk about the trade show, except to observe that it was even smaller than two years ago. Many big names were absent.
I went to a number of technical sessions, both papers and the others -- not sure what to call them. My perception is that there is a bit of a hollow middle, in that the papers are mostly of interest to academics and a handful of industrial research specialists, while the non-paper sessions are mostly pretty basic and short on specifics. Three wonderful exceptions, that I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from were Dan Dugan's on his automixers, Bink Knowles's on corporate events, and Lee Brenkman's on sound for jazz. The paper session on transducers was cool, not just for the subject matter, but for the amazing collection of audio pioneers in the room. I'm not much of a celebrity worshiper, but these guys are my stars.
I'm still winding down from it all.
--Frank
