Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
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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Thursday, March 11, 2010

A Method For Training Listeners and Selecting Program For Listening Tests

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The benefits of training listeners for subjective evaluation of reproduced sound are well documented [1]-[3]. Not only do trained listeners ...
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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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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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