The last AES Swiss section meeting of the year was a joint meeting with the Swiss Acoustical Society and was held at the Radio DRS in Bern on the 15th of November 2001.Dirk Noy of WSGD started with a presentation encapsulating four main themes:General Issues of Control Room Design (programming, ergonomics, sight lines, access)Control Room Acoustics (Symmetry, room geometry for Surround Sound, reflection free zone, reverberation times for Surround Sound, low frequency absorption)Speaker Placement (various Surround Sound standards, SBIR effect console reflections, speaker loading, speaker installation)Case Studies (Das Werk / PhilippeMoritz – Zurich , Sony Oxford Demo Room - New York City , The Mach 2 – Milano)Christophe Anet, of Genelec, then gave a presentation entitled "A Survey Study of Today's Monitoring Conditions"

The in-situ responses of a total of 372 loudspeakers in 164 professional monitoring rooms around the world have been measured after acoustical calibration. All measured rooms have been equipped with factory calibrated three way monitors and acoustically calibrated with standardized apparatus. The results provide a thorough understanding of typical monitoring conditions for stereo and multi-channel rooms, distribution in room parameters and quality of reproduced audio. Results are compared to current standards and recommendations.

A dinner was organised after the meeting.