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The article deals with the presentation made by Bill Whitlock of Jensen Transformers on the topic of grounding at the April 27, 2010 meeting of the Toronto, Ontario section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Particularly, Whitlock tackled on the differences between unbalanced and balanced interconnects, bad practices of breaking the connection of the ground pin, the wire features of star-quad cables and shield current induced noise.

The article reports on a visit paid by radio futurologist James Cridland to Toronto, Ontario to take part in a meeting of the chapter of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) in the city on December 8, 2009. During the event, he explained that he has been traveling around the world tackling radio and new platforms. He also provided statistics on radio listening in Great Britain, including the percentage of the activity that is done on the Internet. He stressed the need for radio to undergo evolutionary change to remain relevant.

The article focuses on the redesigned website of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) discussed by AES Eastern Region vice president Peter Cook at a meeting of the Toronto Section in Ontario held on June 23, 2009. Cook emphasized the fact that the backend systems were given particular attention. According to Cook, the newly launched Student Delegate Assembly website acted as a catalyst for the main website redesign. His discussion ended with a presentation of the features of the member profile, the iTunes podcasts and RSS feeds.

The article focuses on the audiology of the uHear application as it relates to hearing, discussed by Don Hayes of Unitron at the meeting of the Toronto Section of the Audio Engineering Society in Ontario on September 22, 2009. In the discussion, Hayes reviewed how the ear works, the types of hearing loss and noted that hearing loss is defined as a 25-decibel (dB) loss at any octave band. Hayes stressed that although the software is presented to the user like a hearing test, it is a screening.