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Emil Torick - father of the CBS Labs Max Brothers - passes

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wgliradio

I've heard Emil has passed but have no other info.

From the AES website:

Emil Torick, Fellow, Honorary Member and past-President of the AES, has been an active member since 1958. Formerly Vice President, Audio Technology, at CBS, Inc. and President, Broadcast Technology Partners, he has been awarded 16 U. S. patents and is the author of more than 60 technical publications.
 
wgliradio said:
I've heard Emil has passed but have no other info.

From the AES website:

Emil Torick, Fellow, Honorary Member and past-President of the AES, has been an active member since 1958. Formerly Vice President, Audio Technology, at CBS, Inc. and President, Broadcast Technology Partners, he has been awarded 16 U. S. patents and is the author of more than 60 technical publications.
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Not much online...Radio Magazine online has:
http://radiomagonline.com/currents/people/emil-torick-passes-0709/

And Radio World has:
http://www.radioworld.com/article/103138

Mr. Torick left a really amazing legacy. Not only as one of the inventors of the dominant AM, FM and TV audio processors of the 1960s, but as a developer of CBS' SQ matrix quadraphonic system, the FMX FM stereo noise reduction system, and the various iterations of the CBS Loudness Monitors and controllers for TV.

I think he was especially sensitive to the human end-user interaction with processing, and went to great lengths to be sure his products would 'play' with the general consumer. In contemporaneous magazine articles I have found, I read that his group was one of the first to use a simulated living room listening environment to do research in human interaction.

A man WAY ahead of his time, in my opinion.

I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Torick on a couple of occasions and, as far as I was concerned, it was like meeting one of the Beatles. :)
I think he was a little bemused when I told him that, forty years after the fact, I had used his Audimax 'platforming' AGC concepts in the Ariane. ;-) In our conversation, he seemed more proud of the Volumax concepts.

Rest in Peace, Emil Torick.

Kind Regards,
David
 
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