D. B. Keele Jr.

D. Broadus Keele Jr., also known simply as Don Keele or D. B. Keele Jr., is an American audio engineer and inventor who has helped shape and influence the professional and consumer loudspeaker industries since the early seventies. He is one of the developers of the constant directivity horn design with several patents of Bi-radial horns from companies like JBL, and Electrovoice.[1][2][3]

D. B. (Don) Keele Jr.

Keele is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society[4] and has published more than forty technical papers on subjects including speaker boxes, speaker horns, electrical circuits, computer and calculator aided design, anechoic chambers, interaural crosstalk, and Constant Beamwidth Transducers (CBT loudspeakers).[5][6][7] Keele has won several awards including an Academy Award for Technical Achievement for his contribution to Constant Directivity loudspeaker systems in the cinema.[8][9] In 2020, Keele was inducted in the TEC Awards' TECnology Hall of Fame.[10]

Awards and Recognitions

Audio Engineering Society

1975 Publications Award [4]

1979 Fellowship [4]

2016 Gold Medal Award (formerly The John H. Potts Memorial Award) [4]

TEF/Goldline

2001 Richard C. Heyser TEF Award [11]

Association of Loudspeaker Manufacturing and Acoustics (ALMA)[11]

2011 The Beryllium Driver Award for Lifetime Achievement [12]

References
  1. "Defined coverage loudspeaker horn". 1983-10-05. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. "Horn loudspeaker". 1975-09-30. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. "Loudspeaker horn". 1980-05-06. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "AES Awards". www.aes.org. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  5. Keele, D. Broadus (Don) Keele Jr. (May 1, 1972). "The Vented Loudspeaker: A Restatement". www.aes.org. Audio Engineering Society. Retrieved 2016-08-12.
  6. https://secure.aes.org/forum/pubs/conventions/?elib=1812
  7. Keele, D. Broadus (Don) Keele Jr. (April 1, 1974). "Low-Frequency Loudspeaker Assessment by Nearfield Sound-Pressure Measurement". www.aes.org. Audio Engineering Society. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  8. Keele, D. Broadus (Don) Keele Jr. (March 24, 2002). "Scientific and Engineering Award - For the concept, design and engineering of the modern constant-directivity, direct radiator style motion picture loudspeaker systems". IMDB Database - Academy Awards, USA 2002. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
  9. "THE 74TH SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL AWARDS 2001 | 2002". Academy Awards Database - AMPAS. Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. March 1, 2002. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  10. Staff (December 29, 2020). "NAMM TEC Awards' TECnology Hall of Fame to Induct Don Keele, Four Others". FOH Online. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  11. "AES Los Angeles 2016 ยป Presenters: D.B. (Don) Keele, Jr". www.aes.org. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
  12. "ALMA INTERNATIONAL - THE ALMA INTERNATIONAL DRIVER AWARDS". www.almainternational.org. Retrieved 2017-04-29.
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