John Ernest Benson (1911–1989) was an Australian engineer and researcher who contributed to studies on piezoelectric crystals, television and sound systems, particularly loudspeakers.
[2] He designed a novel electrically tapered column loudspeaker system for the Sydney Town Hall to successfully solve some acoustic problems with the space.
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 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.
[4] AWA Technical Review was also the original publisher for A. Neville Thiele's 1961 papers on vented box loudspeakers.
[3] In 1996, Prompt 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"[5] Don and Carolyn are founders of the well-known Synergistic Audio Concepts, or SynAudCon.