September Meeting Notice
September 1999 Meeting Notice
Subject: The Truth About Audio Cable
Speaker: Steve Lampen, Belden Electronics
Place: Cogswell College, Sunnyvale, CA
Time and Date: Sept. 21st, 7:30 PM (refreshments at 7:00 PM)
The speaker is Steve Lampen, Technology Specialist Multimedia Products for Belden Electronics and his talk is entitled, "The Truth about Audio Cable". His talk will cover the construction of cable for audio, from microphone, to line, to speaker cable, with a special emphasis on how it is tested, how to compare the quality of different cables, and appropriate and inappropriate applications. Steve will also discuss the construction and measurement of digital cables such as AES/EBU balanced or coax cables, or S/PDIF cables. Steve will cover resistance, capacitance, inductance, impedance, skin effect, dielectric constant, velocity of propagation and many other factors used in the design and construction of cables. Come prepared with your hardest wire and cable questions!
Steve Lampen is Technology Specialist, Multimedia Products, for Belden Electronics Division, headquartered in Richmond, Indiana. Before this position he was Technology Development Manager, and an Audio-Video Specialist. He previously worked in distribution, and was an engineer and chief engineer at many Bay Area radio stations including KJAZ, KTIM AM-FM, KYA/KLHT, KMEL, KFOG/KNBR, KRE/KBLX and Sutro Tower. Steve is a member of SBE, SMPTE, AES (since 1969), and ACM. He has a Lifetime General FCC License, is an SBE Certified Radio Broadcast Engineer, and a BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer. His book, "Wire, Cable, and Fiber Optics" was published by McGraw-Hill, and his column "Wired for Sound" appears monthly in Radio World magazine.
Sandwiches and snacks will be served prior to the meeting.
Directions
From the East Bay - Take 880 to 237 west. Exit on Mathilda Ave. north. Turn right on the frontage road and then left onto Bordeaux Drive. The meeting is in the auditorium.
From the Peninsula - Take 101 to 237 east. Exit on Mathilda Ave. north. Turn right on the frontage road and then left onto Bordeaux Drive. The meeting is in the auditorium.