Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Showing posts with label listening tests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label listening tests. Show all posts
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Factors that Influence Listeners’ Preferred Bass and Treble Levels in Headphones

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Most people would agree that headphone purchase decisions are heavily influenced by the brand and styling (size,  weight, color, quality o...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

Harman Researchers Make Important Headway in Understanding Headphone Response

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Todd Welti, Sean Olive and Elisabeth McMullin are shown above with their custom binaural mannequin, "Sidney" wearing a pair of A...
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Monday, April 22, 2013

The Relationship between Perception and Measurement of Headphone Sound Quality

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Above: The brands and models of six popular headphones used in this study. In many ways, our scientific understanding of the percepti...
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Saturday, May 1, 2010

Evaluating the Sound Quality of Ipod Music Stations: Part 3 Measurements

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In Part 3 of this article, the acoustical measurements of three popular Ipod Music Stations (Harman Kardon MS100, Bo...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Evaluating the Sound Quality of Ipod Music Stations: Part 2 Listening Tests

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Part 1 of this article described a listening test method used at Harman International for evaluating the sound quality of Ipod Music Dockin...
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Dr. Sean Olive
Oak Park, California, United States
Sean Olive is Senior Research Fellow for Harman International, a major manufacturer of audio products for consumer, professional and automotive spaces. He directs the Corporate R&D group, and oversees acoustic and psychoacoustic research for Harman. Prior to 1993, he was a research scientist at the National Research Council of Canada where his research focused on the perception and measurement of loudspeakers, listening rooms, and microphones. Sean received a Bachelors degree in Music from the University of Toronto, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Sound Recording from McGill University in Montreal. His Ph.D. research was on room acoustic adaptation and the acoustical interaction between loudspeakers and rooms. Dr. Olive has written over 50 research papers on the perception and measurement of audio for which he was awarded the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Fellowship Award in 1996, two Publication Awards (1990 and 1995), the ALMA Titanium and Harman Achievement Awards. Sean is the past President of the Audio Engineering Society. For more info see www.linkedin.com/in/seanolive
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