Charlie Hughes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Charlie Hughes
Occupation	American Inventor
Date Of Birth	Feb 13, 1965(1965-02-13)
Age	59
Birthplace	Jackson
Country	United States
Birth City	Mississippi
Horoscope	Aquarius

Charlie Hughes Biography

Charlie Hughes is one of the most popular and richest American inventor who was born on February 13, 1965 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. Charles Emory “Charlie” Hughes II (born on 13th February 1965) is an American audio engineer and inventor. He is famous for his work in the field of designing loudspeakers and the measuring of professional audio systems. Hughes initially worked for Peavey Electronics designing loudspeakers and the horns. He was awarded patents on the Quadratic-Throat waveguide horn, which is used on concert-style loudspeakers. Hughes worked for Altec Lansing for two years as the chief engineer for their Pro Audio division, and received two more patents. Presently, Hughes designs loudspeakers and does contract engineering in the name of Excelsior Audio as co-owner. He is a renowned consultant in the field of audio analysis and measurement software as well as systems. He has served on committees of important standards organizations to create technical standards for measuring as well as the production of equipment for audio.

In the early 1990s, Hughes joined a LISTSERV discussion that was hosted by SynAudCon An audio-related training company, and helped SynAudCon in teaching students. In addition writing articles for the SynAudCon newsletter. Hughes also joined a separate industry LISTSERV named Live Audio Board (LAB) and was run by Dave Stevens, a live audio engineer. The LAB was purchased from ProSoundWeb (PSW) and Hughes contributed articles to be published by PSW. Hughes is also a writer in Live Sound International, a magazine that is published by PSW. Hughes is an active part of the Acoustical Society of America.

At Peavey, Hughes measured the results of his horn experiments, and he analyzed the total performance of multiple-driver loudspeakers, especially with regard to tuning the crossover to obtain optimum results. In this measurement he used TEF, a professional acoustical measurements and instrumentation system first made by Techron, a division of Crown International, then sold to Gold Line. TEF is a system that incorporates Richard C. Heyser’s time delay spectrometry (TDS) method to analyze sound waves. In 1998, Hughes was appointed to the advisory committee of Gold Line’s TEF division. As of 2008 he was still on the advisory committee. Hughes also programmed in MATLAB, a computing environment that allowed him to visualize the complex output pattern of a loudspeaker system under test. He used MATLAB to optimize crossovers to achieve smoother directivity results at the crossover transition region. Toward this end, Hughes developed a software tool called PolarSum which eliminated much of the drudge work of taking a great many polar plot measurements. Hughes also used Enhanced Acoustic Simulator for Engineers (EASE), a 3D simulation tool which was developed by Wolfgang Ahnert and Stefan Feistel of Germany.

This quadratic equation suggested to Hughes the name of the horn design: the Quadratic-Throat Waveguide (QT waveguide). Instead of increasing the horn mouth size with a flare to control midrange beaming, a relatively thin layer of foam covering the mouth edge was found to suit the same end. The QT waveguide, when compared to popular constant directivity (CD) horns, produced about 3–4 dB lower levels of second harmonic distortion across all frequencies, and an average of 9 dB lower levels of the more annoying third harmonic distortion. Being without a diffraction slot, the QT waveguide was free from problems with apparent apex, making it arrayable as needed for public address purposes. In New York City, Hughes presented a paper on the technology at the Audio Engineering Society convention in September 1999. His patent for the QT waveguide was provisionally filed on March 5, 1999, and granted on May 9, 2000.

Hughes was involved early in the operational aspects that operate audio systems. He was the chief sound engineer and designer of the Meridian Little Theatre from 1989. In 1991, Hughes teamed with Peavey Product Manager Mick Donner to form Meridian SoundWorks an in-state sound reinforcement firm that provided equipment and technology to mix political and corporate events, and theatre productions. Meridian SoundWorks also provided sound system design and optimization for permanent installations. This allowed Hughes to evaluate the performance of the equipment in real-world scenarios.

Charlie Hughes Net Worth

Charlie Hughes is one of the richest American Inventor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Charlie Hughes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Hughes was a physics student in the Georgia Institute of Technology including audio engineering under Dr. Eugene “Gene” Patronis. He was a part of the maintenance team for WREK the campus radio station, and also spoke on air as a professional. His final project was a three-way loudspeaker system which Hughes says is sounding great but looking shabby due his lack of woodworking expertise. Hughes graduated from the University of Texas in 1988, earning a Bachelor’s in Physics. Following his college graduation, Hughes was hired by Peavey Electronics in Meridian, Mississippi in which he worked for 14 years.

Hughes has graduated from William B. Murrah High School in Jackson, Mississippi. Hughes relocated to Atlanta to study at Atlanta’s Georgia Institute of Technology. Following graduation, he moved in Meridian, Mississippi, to work for Peavey. In May, 1989 He was wed Beth Fleeman. At first, a daughter called Tori followed by a son Ben who was also brought up in Mississippi. The family relocated into Milford, Pennsylvania, in the middle of 2002. In the latter half of 2004 the entire family relocated to Gastonia North Carolina, which is the hometown of Beth, and where Hughes created Excelsior Audio. On December 12, Hughes gifted his daughter with a gift at Gastonia Debutante Ball. Gastonia Debutante Ball.

Since 1994 Hughes has been a member of the Audio Engineering Society. He has contributed to four standards committees: SC-02-01 (Digital Audio Measurement Techniques), SC-04-01 (Acoustics and Sound Source Modeling), SC-04-03 (Loudspeaker Modeling and Measurement), SC-04-08 (Sound systems in rooms). After his first paper in 1999, he teamed with Ahnert, Feistel, and Bruce Olson to present a paper in New York in 2007 on simulating the directivity of loudspeakers. In 2008 in San Francisco he took part in a panel discussion about the state of the art in loudspeaker design in profession sound reinforcement. The panel included consultant Tom Young, Tom Danley of Danley Sound Labs, Aleš Dravinec of ADRaudio, Dave Gunness of Fulcrum Acoustics, and Pete Soper of Meyer Sound Laboratories. Hughes also gave a talk called “Loudspeaker Directivity Improvement Using Low Pass and All Pass Filters.” In New York in 2009, Hughes once again spoke in a panel of experts on the state of live sound loudspeakers. In San Francisco in 2010, Hughes chaired a panel discussion about achieving directionality with subwoofers; the panel was composed of Dravinec, Steve Bush from Meyer, Dave Rat of Rat Sound, and Bill Gelow from Bosch Communications. Hughes also participated in a panel discussion composed of Peter Mapp, Floyd Toole and Kurt Graffy comparing objective audio measurement results with subjective methods. In New York in 2011 he revisited the topic of subwoofer directionality as a member of a panel including Jim Risgin of On Stage Audio, Paul Bauman of JBL, and consultant Doug Fowler.

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The EASE simulation software that Hughes had been using for years came under management by the Ahnert Feistel Media Group (AFMG) in early 2006. At the beginning of 2011, AFMG brought Hughes on board to consult on software development and to join their team of product support and advanced training experts. Hughes supports AFMG software products such as EASE, EASERA, SysTune and SpeakerLab. Through AFMG, he trains and supports customers of Renkus-Heinz audio products.

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