Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

The Danger From Headphones

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Below is an English translation of a recent article " Gefahr aus dem Kopfhörer " (The Danger From Headphones) written by Matthia...
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Friday, July 9, 2010

Why Live-versus-Recorded Listening Tests Don't Work

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Figure 1: Singer Frieda Hempel conducting a Tone Test at Edison Studios, NYC in 1918. Note that many of the listeners' ears are covered ...
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Harman Kardon's Quest to Standardize Sound

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Above: Trained listener Alex Miller is evaluating the sound quality of three loudspeakers in Harman's Multichannel Listening Lab. The ...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

Are There Cross-Cultural Preferences in The Quality of Reproduced Sound?

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Do we need a new user menu where you dial in your nationality to match your taste in sound quality? [ click on image to see a larger v...
Monday, June 28, 2010

Science in the Service of Art

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Last week, I've was given my own front page forum over at WhatsbestForum called " Science in the Service of Art" , where I...
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Friday, June 18, 2010

Some New Evidence That Generation Y May Prefer Accurate Sound Reproduction

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Sound quality in mainstream music recording and reproduction is all but dead, at least according to the media reports published over the p...
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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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