BLaH 14 withdrawn from AES 153

Eric Benjamin and I had a paper accepted for AES 153 (NYC, 10/2022), but we decided to withdraw it because between the "Presenting Author's Fee" and online conference registration fees, it would cost over $400 for us to present it. Here's Eric's note to the program committee: 

My colleague, Aaron Heller, and I would like to withdraw our contribution to the 153rd AES Convention. Our reasons are multiple but primarily it comes down to cost.  

I’ve been contributing articles to AES conventions and to the journal for more than forty years. During that time, I have seen the support provided by AES to the authors dwindle. Twenty years or more ago, convention registration fees were completely waived for authors. In the intervening years, that support has been reduced. For our paper in the Spring 2021 convention, the presenting author’s fee was $139; now a year and half later I have received a bill for $320 to present our current paper.

The work discussed in these papers is self-funded and we derive no income whatsoever from it. All of our designs and software are made freely available and without restriction. Frankly, we’d prefer to spend that $320 on supporting future work.

I'm thinking about a venue for this and future work. The Linux Audio Conferences seem to be on hold.  Uploading to arXiv works well and is indexed widely, which makes the papers easy to find, but without the hard deadline of a conference, I fear the papers might never get completed. 

Any thoughts would be appreciated, email or in the comments.