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parameters. AWA Technical Review was also the original publisher for A. Neville Thiele's 1961 papers on vented box loudspeakers. Thiele's papers were not well known until reprinted in the
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (JAES) in 1971. Richard Small also published in the JAES in the early
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Publications published Benson's 1968–1972 three part paper series on loudspeaker cabinet design, with an introduction by Don and Carolyn Davis, as: "Theory and Design of Loudspeaker Enclosures" Don and Carolyn are founders of the well-known Synergistic Audio Concepts, or SynAudCon.
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Ltd. (AWA). He made contributions to many areas of electronics, starting with piezoelectric crystals. After earning a master's degree in 1945, he moved on to study color television and loudspeakers in the late 1940s and 1950s. On 3 November 1948, the first
Australian-produced television set was
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Benson was editor of the AWA Technical Review journal from 1948 until 1975, when he retired. A series of papers published in
Australian journals (including the AWA Technical Review) from 1968 to 1972 put a firm technical foundation on the electroacoustics of the era, clearly creating a single
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Benson, J.E. "Synthesis of High-Pass
Filtered Loudspeaker Systems, Part 1 – Isolated Filters Driving Second-Order (Closed-Box) Systems", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1974 June) (reprinted JAES Volume 27 Issue 7/8 pp. 548–561; August
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Benson, J.E. "Synthesis of High-Pass
Filtered Loudspeaker Systems, Part 2 – Isolated Filters Driving Fourth-Order (Reflex) Systems", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1975 June) (reprinted JAES Volume 27 Issue 10 pp. 769–779; October
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Benson, J.E. "Synthesis of High-Pass
Filtered Loudspeaker Systems, Part 1 (a) – IA Supplementary Note on QB2, SC3 and SC4 Alignments", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1974 December) (JAES Volume 27 Issue 9 pp. 667–672; September
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mathematical loudspeaker enclosure model that could be used to describe sealed, vented, and passive radiator enclosures, and similar types with various sorts of damping elements. Benson was the examiner for the 1972 PhD Thesis of
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Benson, J.E. "An
Introduction to the Design of Filtered Loudspeaker Systems", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1973) (reprinted JAES Volume 23 Issue 7 pp. 536–545; September 1975)
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Benson, J.E., Builder, G. "Precision
Frequency-Control Equipment Using Quartz Crystals" World Radio Convention. Proceedings. (Sydney, 1938), paper no.31; A.W.A. Technical Review, 3 (1938), 157–214.
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Benson, J.E. "Theory and Design of
Loudspeaker Enclosures, Part 2 – Response Relationships for Infinite Baffle and Closed Box Systems", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1971)
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Benson, J.E., Builder, G. "Contour-Mode Vibrations in Y-Cut Quartz-Crystal Plates. Institute of Radio Engineers. Proceedings., 29 (1941), 182–185; A.W.A. Technical Review, 5 (1941), 181–189.
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Benson, J.E. "Theory and Design of Loudspeaker Enclosures, Part 1 – Electro-Acoustical Relations and General Analysis", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1968)
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Benson, J.E. "Theory and Design of Loudspeaker Enclosures, Part 3 – Introduction to Synthesis of Vented Systems", Amalgamated Wireless Australia Technical Review, (1972)
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Benson, J.E., Builder, G. "Simple Quartz-Crystal Filters of Variable Bandwidth" A.W.A. Technical Review, 5 (1941), 93–103; Wireless Engineer, 20 (1943), 183–189.
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in 1960. The design once again used column loudspeakers and it won a Duke of Edinburgh prize for industrial design for both Benson and AWA in 1972.
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to successfully solve some acoustic problems with the space. This design lent credibility to the team at AWA and they won a contract to design the
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Benson, J.E. "Modes of Vibration and Design of V-Cut Quartz Plates for Medium Broadcast Frequencies" A.W.A. Technical Review, 6 (1943–44), 73–90.
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unveiled at the IRE Radio Convention. The team who created the set were Benson, H.J. Oyston and B.R Johnson, who were present at the unveiling.
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Benson, J.E, "A Survey of the Methods and Colorimetric Principles of Colour Television", Proceedings of the IRE(Aust), (Jul–Aug 1951)
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Benson, J.E. "Crystal Control of the Mixer Oscillator in a Superheterodyne Receiver II" A.W.A. Technical Review, 5 (1940), 29–40.
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Benson, J.E. "Crystal Control of the Mixer Oscillator in a Superheterodyne Receiver" A.W.A. Technical Review, 4 (1939), 127–137.
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Benson, J.E., Ross H.A. "A Telecontrolled Tunable Receiver Installation" A.W.A. Technical Review, 6 (1943–44), 267–283.
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Benson, J.E., Brown, A.G. "Remote Control of Crystal-Locked Receivers" A.W.A. Technical Review, 6 (1943–44), 161–175.
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Benson died in 1989 at age 78. An obituary tribute was written about him by fellow Australian loudspeaker researcher
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Benson, J.E., Builder, G. "Noise Interference in Radio Receivers" A.W.A. Technical Review, 2 (1936), 23–32.
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