The meeting minutes:

• Winter Carnival
  
  • Talked to Superior Rental about 50K Generator, they are looking into it.
  
  
  • Keep coming up with ideas
  
  
  • A DJ is a very good possibility for at least for a few hours


• Social
  
  • Friday Night
  
  
  • More to follow.


• Speaker Building Competition
  
  • Keep working on them.
  
  
  • If you need drivers, let me know.
  
  
  • Crossover Lecture upcoming in November.


• Projects
  
  • If you have ideas for projects let us know.
  
  
  • Lab Speakers -> should get going on this.
  
  
  • If anyone knows of a wood shop we would have access to that would be plus.

Here are the meeting minutes:

• Talked about the design possibilites of our lab speakers.
  
  • Going to use the Klipsch drivers


• Winter Carnival Updates
  
  • Working on sending a letter to companies asking for speaker donations/design ideas.
  
  
  • Some ideas have been presented, keep thinking of ideas.


• Speaker Building Competition
  
  • Kicked off the competition by handing out some speakers.
  
  
  • Did some testing in the chamber on 8th floor.
  
  
  • Will have about a month to complete designs.
  
  
  • Design a box and a crossover if you desire.


• AES Social
  
  • Have a little gathering so everyone can get to know each other.
  
  
  • I was thinking next weekend, need to find a location.
  
  
  • Can decide next meeting.

I will be updating the photo gallery during the next couple of days so please bear with me. There was some problems with spam and backdoor PHP trojans and what not.


EDIT: I have finished updating and migrating all pictures over to the new database/system. It should look the same as the old one if I did everything right.

This was the new member meeting and so we enjoyed pizza and pop as is the custom. Besides the normal organizational stuff being talked about (most of which is on our About Page) we talked about the following:

• Alex M. showed off his awesome planar magnetic speakers and demonstrated some of their characteristics (good & bad).


• Planned Projects (have one of your own? just let us know!):
  
  • Bookshelf speakers for the lab. If you have a cool idea either email it to the list or bring it up at our next meeting.
  
  
  • Speaker Building Competition: We will give you a few drivers (and maybe some components) and your job is to come up with some nice or ghetto speakers! Cardboard is usually a favorite of the patrons....
  
  
  • Amplifier Project: build a small amplifier to start understanding how they work. We can do both tube and transistor depending on interest.


• Upcoming Lectures (all TBD for now, but they'll probably be in this order starting next week)
  
  • Anatomy of a Speaker - How and why does it work? What are the limitations? What are other types of speakers? What can be done to increase the response of my current speaker/setup? Make sure to not miss this one!
  
  
  • Basic Speaker Configuration - Come learn how many different ways a speaker can be arranged and configured in an enclosure. What is the benefit/cons of a 2 way vs 3 way system? What on earth is a 1-way horn loaded setup?
  
  
  • Amp Distortion - Alex wanted to talk about this, and frankly I don't know that much so I'm looking forward to it just as you should be!
  
  
  • Have something else that you think we should talk about or have something that YOU'D like to talk about? Just let us know and we will try to hook you up.


• Winter Carnival
  
  • Please start thinking about crazy ideas you might want to bring into fruition!
  
  
  • We should have around 30kW of solid steady power.
  
  
  • All the 40+ subwoofers from MTX are still available - hopefully we can pick up some better mids this year.