Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Audio's Circle of Confusion

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Audio’s “Circle of Confusion” is a term coined by Floyd Toole [1] that describes the confusion that exists within the audio recording and r...
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Validation of a Binaural Room Scanning Measurement System for Subjective Evaluation of Automotive Audio Systems

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In a previous posting on Audio Musings, I described Harman’s binaural room scanning (BRS) measurement and playback system. BRS is a powerf...
Thursday, June 11, 2009

Whole-Body Vibration Associated with Low-Frequency Audio Reproduction Influences Preferred Equalization

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Last week I attended the AES Automotive Audio Conference in Dearborn, Michigan where about 70-odd (pun intended) audio scientists and engine...
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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Harman's "How to Listen" - A New Computer-based Listener Training Program

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Trained listeners with normal hearing are used at Harman International for all standard listening tests related to research and competitive...
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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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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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