Audio Musings  by Sean Olive
Friday, February 17, 2017

TWiRT 337 – Predicting Headphone Sound Quality with Sean Olive

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The predicted sound quality of 61 different models of in-ear headphones (blue curve) versus their retail price (green bars). On February...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

15 Minutes with Harman’s Audio Guru Sean Olive: Sound & Vision Magazine Interview

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"The problem is that the current standard audio specifications for headphones and loudspeakers are almost useless in terms of indic...
Friday, April 22, 2016

A Virtual Headphone Listening Test Method

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Fig. 1 The Harman Headphone Virtualizer App allows listeners to make double-blind comparisons of  different headphones through a high...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016

Harman Gives Loudspeaker Course To U of Rochester Engineering Students

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Recently Mark Glazer, Principal Engineer at Harman Luxury Audio and   Revel Loudspeakers gave an invited lecture to University of Roche...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Factors that Influence Listeners’ Preferred Bass and Treble Levels in Headphones

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Most people would agree that headphone purchase decisions are heavily influenced by the brand and styling (size,  weight, color, quality o...
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

The Influence of Listeners' Experience, Age and Culture on Headphone Sound Quality Preferences

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At the recent 137th convention of the Audio Engineering Society we presented our latest research paper entitled, "The Influence of L...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

My Article on Headphone Sound Quality in 2014 LIS

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The 2014 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook came out this week. In it, you can find an article I wrote called " Perceiving and Measuring ...
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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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