Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Friday, February 5, 2010

Evaluating the Sound Quality of Ipod Music Stations: Part 1

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For many consumers, an iPod Music Docking Station may be the primary audio device through which they experience most of their recorded music...
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The Effect of Whole-body Vibrations on Preferred Bass Equalizations of Automotive Audio Systems

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Binaural Room Scanning (BRS) is a technology that allows Harman scientists to binaurally capture, store, and later reproduce sound fields t...
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Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Subjective and Objective Evaluation of Room Correction Products

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In a recent article, I discussed audio’s circle of confusion that exists within the audio industry due to the lack of performance standards...
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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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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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