Ted was educated in UK ‘Grammar’ Schools, and took an external degree in civil engineering. He is a musician, and was an early electronics and acoustics hobbyist.
In 1969, along with a group of engineers and musicians, he founded the ‘ALICE’ sound mixer manufacturing company; a bunch of enthusiasts who designed and built mixers and other equipment for touring bands of the 1960s and 70s, and went on to design and install complete radio stations and sound installations for television, throughout the UK and all over the world for both the independent sector and the BBC.
In the 1980s Ted worked on innovations for radio ‘phone-in’ programmes and took the technology across to the banking and money broking business, consulting and advising major banks, British Telecom, Motorola and Vodaphone in voice transmission techniques.
In the late 1990s, Ted founded the ‘Joemeek’ brand name, epitomised by the SC2 stereo compressor; an icon in recording studios, and designed and developed a complete range of audio equipment that became known and admired throughout the professional recording world.
One of Ted's present companies continues to design and manufacture a small range of highly specialised professional audio equipment under the name ‘TFPRO’ ( www.tfpro.com ), while he works on loudspeaker and acoustics research and occasionally lectures in colleges and universities all over the world, on all aspects of sound recording and reproduction, electronics and psychoacoustics.
In 2005 Ted invented the concept and details of airSOUND®, a new and revolutionary way to listen to stereo sound with significant and far reaching advantages over the more conventional '2-speaker' way.
airSOUND technology is owned and developed by Airsound LLP, backed by a City of London Investment Consortium, protected by trademarks and patents and is on offer to, and is being taken up by an increasing number of commercial manufacturers. (www.airsound.net)
(www.orbitsound.co.uk)
In November 2006, Thames Valley University in London, awarded an honorary degree to Ted in the form of Fellowship of the Faculty of the Arts in recognition of services to sound recording and reproduction.