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-- [公告]Albert Neville Thiele 2012年10月一日不幸辞世
Albert Neville Thiele (1920–2012)
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of one of the loudspeaker industry’s greatest icons, Dr. Albert Neville Thiele. He died on October 1, 2012. His name has been heard, and it will continue to be heard thousands of times a day by loudspeaker engineers as we discuss “Thiele/Small Parameters.”
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Dr. Albert Neville Thiele
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Albert Neville Thiele was born in Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia in 1920 and he was educated at Milton State
School, Brisbane Grammar School, and the Universities
of Queensland and Sydney. After five years of war
service in the infantry and in the Australian Electrical
Mechanical Engineers Corps. (AEME) he graduated with
a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical and Electrical)
in 1952.
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Joining EMI Australia (yes, the same EMI that owns
Abbey Road Studio’s in the U.K.), he was employed as a
design engineer on special projects, including telemetry.
When television came to Australia, he spent six months
of 1955 in the EMI laboratories at Hayes, Middlesex, and
at associated companies in Scandinavia and the U.S.
On his return to Australia, he led the design team that
developed EMI’s earliest Australian television receivers.
Appointed Advanced Development Engineer in
1957, he was responsible for applying advanced
technology in EMI Australia’s radio and television
receivers and electronic test equipment.
Neville’s next job was with the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC) as Senior Engineer, Design and
Development, where he designed and assessed
equipment and systems for sound and television
broadcasting.
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In 1976, while at ABC, he and Richard H. Small of
Sydney University published the still famous paper on
loudspeaker cabinet design.
After serving as Director of Engineering ACT with ABC’s
radio and television studios in Canberra, he was appointed
Assistant Director Engineering NSW (TV), responsible for
engineering ABC’s Gore Hill television studios in Sydney.
In 1980, he was appointed Director, Engineering
Development and New Systems Applications, where
he was responsible for ABC’s engineering research and
development until his retirement at the end of 1985.
In 1991, he was appointed Honorary Visiting Fellow
by the University of New South Wales, and in 1994
he became an Honorary Associate by the University
of Sydney, where he taught part-time in the Graduate
Audio Program.
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Neville published more than 30 papers on electroacoustics,
network theory, testing methods, and
sound and vision broadcasting (29 of his papers were
published by the AES). Some of his papers—notably
on loudspeakers, television testing, and coaxial cable
equalization—have become internationally accepted
references on these topics, including the Thiele-Small
parameters for measuring and designing loudspeakers
(a methodology adopted by textbooks as the basis of
loudspeaker design for much of the last 40 years), and
the Total Difference-Frequency Distortion measurement
of audio transmission and recording.
In 1968 and in 1992, he was awarded the Norman W.V.
Hayes Medal of the Institution of Radio and Electronics
Engineers Australia (IREE) for best paper published that
year in the Institution’s Proceedings. In 1994, he was
awarded the AES Silver Medal for his pioneering work in
loudspeaker simulation.
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Neville was involved in setting standards for broadcasting
nationally and internationally. He was a member
of five of the seven committees advising the Australian
Broadcasting Control Board from 1969 to 1974 on standards
for the introduction of Australia’s color television
service, and he was Chairman of the Working Party on the
Standard Demodulator. Neville worked on international
standards for sound and television broadcasting with the
International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in Geneva,
where he represented Australia at four meetings in 1980,
1981, 1983, and 1985, and he was an active member of
CCIR Interim Working Parties on International Exchange
of Sound Programmes, Subjective Testing of Television
Picture Quality, and High-Definition Television.
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At the 1985 meeting, he was appointed chairman of
CCIR Sub Working Group CMTT-C-1 on Long Distance
Transmission of Analogue Sound. He was also involved in
setting electroacoustic standards. Nationally, he worked
on the Standards Australia (SA), where he was chairman
of its Committee TE/8, Sound and Television Engineering
and Recording. Internationally, he served the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and AES committees
that were concerned with loudspeakers and digital audio.
Neville Thiele was a member of the Society of Motion
Picture and Television Engineers and a Fellow of the
Institution of Engineers Australia, of the Audio Engineering
Society of which he was vice president, International
Region from 1991 to 1993, and of the Institution of Radio
and Electronics Engineers Australia of which he was president
from 1986 to 1988.
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Until shortly before his death, Neville was still
actively researching filter design and lecturing on loudspeaker
design at the University of Sydney. He had
a long association with Precision Audio in Melbourne,
including the origination of the Neville Thiele Method
(NTM) for the company’s crossover filter products.
In 2003, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award
by the international chapter of the AES, and a Medal of the
Order of Australia (OAM) for his contribution to the audio
industry. In 2009, Sydney University conferred a Doctorate
of Science in Architecture (honoris causa) to him.
His other interests included bushwalking, music, and
theater. He also narrated the soundtrack of Bruce Petty’s
film “The Mad Century 1900–2000” for SBS Independent.
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Neville also recorded a video for the AES Oral History
project (www.aes.org) titled, “Neville Thiele On Alan
Blumlein” (Alan, a U.K. EMI engineer, held the original
1931 patent on binaural recording and basically invented
both stereo and tone controls). I can’t imagine a more
illustrious career in the pursuit of making recorded music
sound better than Neville’s. He will be greatly missed.
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By Vance Dickason
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Thiele博士将被世人所缅怀!
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又少了一个竞争对手，惋惜
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感恩THIEL博士对我们电声事业的巨大贡献。
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此主题相关图片如下：voice coil.jpg
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电声界的一代伟人走了，但他留下的理论，
会一直指导着我们！
当我们在应用着他的理论的时候，我们还会想到：他是世界的......
感恩THIELE和很多像他这样的前辈！
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大师走好！
精神永存！
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几年前还经常来中国，可爱的白胡子老头。值得大家怀念一下。
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先驱离去，SMALL们要跟上