Keith Holland, RS chairman, said, "We are again keeping with the ever popular residential format familiar with RS conferences, which encourages valuable and sociable networking between attendees. We have taken RS to Manchester in the past, which resulted in excellent contributions from Salford and Manchester Universities, among others, and this time we are hoping for something similar from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) and from Southampton Solent. The Holiday Inn is also in a stunning location, overlooking the Solent, and Southampton is convenient to reach by road, rail or plane from London and elsewhere."
"The programme includes a wide variety of interesting papers, from practitioners, consultants and academics, along with a number of workshops and demos. We are particularly delighted to welcome back Mark Dodd, a one-time regular at the conference, returning this year to receive the Peter Barnett Award, which recognises excellence in electro-acoustics. Mark will present on Developments in wide band transducers and transducer arrays with single source characteristics, which I suspect will bring up the headline issue of timing!
"The papers cover many aspects of sound reinforcement, 3D auralisation, speech intelligibility, sound for cinema/TV, PAVA systems, transducers and measurement systems. There will be opportunities to visit both Southampton Solent (Thursday evening) and the ISVR (Friday morning).
Since its inception Reproduced Sound, which is organised by the Institute of Acoustics' Electro-Acoustics Group, has become renowned for bringing together some of the friendliest and most knowledgeable sound specialists in the world.
Keith added, "Reproduced Sound conferences have always represented the cutting edge of modern audio and acoustics in an informal environment where attendees freely mingle and welcome the sharing of insight and information.
"Over the years they've become firmly established as a 'must attend' event for many people from a wide background in acoustics and audio sectors, from acoustic scientists to audio system designers, and from consulting engineers to venue operators, to name just a few, and this year's conference promises to be one of the best yet.
"Once bitten, most of us come back year after year, to refresh our friendships and inspire our minds."
(Jim Evans)
