Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Saturday, May 23, 2009

The Harman International Reference Listening Room

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Last week I returned from the AES Munich Convention where I gave a paper entitled ” A New Reference Listening Room for Consumer, Professi...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Dishonesty of Sighted Listening Tests

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An ongoing controversy within the high-end audio community is the efficacy of blind versus sighted audio product listening tests. In a blind...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009

Binaural Room Scanning Part 2: Calibration, Testing, and Validation

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In part 1 of this article, I described how binaural room scanning works and why it has great potential as a tool for psychoacoustic researc...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Binaural Room Scanning - A Powerful Tool For Audio Research & Testing

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Binaural Room Scanning (BRS) is a powerful audio technology being used by Harman scientists to conduct innovative psychoacoustic research a...
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Sunday, January 11, 2009

What Loudspeaker Specifications Are Relevant to Sound Quality?

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This past week I attended the International Loudspeaker Manufacturer’s Association (ALMA) Winter Symposium in Las Vegas where the theme wa...
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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Why Consumer Report's Loudspeaker Accuracy Scores Are Not Accurate

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For over 35 years, Consumer Reports magazine recommended loudspeakers to consumers based on what many audio scientists believe to be a fl...
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Thursday, January 1, 2009

A Video on How We Measure Loudspeaker Sound Quality at Harman International

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Part of my job at  Harman International  involves participating in audio dealer training and press events. This involves a 1-2 day field tri...
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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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