Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Friday, March 25, 2011

Version 2.03 of Harman How to Listen Now Available For Download!

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You can download the latest update of Harman How to Listen  (version 2.03) here. This update fixes a bug in the Windows version that prom...
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Harman's "How to Listen" Listener Training Software Now Available as Beta

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Well, it's been some time coming, but the listener training software Harman How to Listen is finally available for free download here...
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Thursday, December 9, 2010

How to Listen: A Course on How to Critically Evaluate the Quality of Recorded and Reproduced Sound

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Next month, I will be giving a one day course on How to Listen at the 2011 ALMA Winter Symposium in Las Vegas,held Jan. 4th and 5th, just...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Harman Debunks Youthful Music Myths

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Robert Archer, a writer at CEPro magazine has written a nice article called " Harman Debunks Youthful Music Myths ." The article...
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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 ...
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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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