Some of the Harman and competitor headphones that we've recently tested.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
To my surprise, this morning an audio friend tweeted a link to an article I recently wrote for our company's internal newsletter entitled, "The Science and Marketing of Sound Quality." My article can be found on a new Harman Innovation website launched today that features articles on current and future disruptive technology that will impact consumers' infotainment experiences. Check it out.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
Todd Welti, Sean Olive and Elisabeth McMullin are shown above with their custom binaural mannequin, "Sidney" wearing a pair of AKG K1000's. No fit or leakage issues with these headphones.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
This past week I had an enjoyable time meeting well-known technology writer Robert Scoble who was visiting our Harman facilities in Northridge, CA along with his geek-in-command Sam Levine. As part of the tour, I showed them our Reference Listening Room and Multichannel Listening Lab where we do product research and double-blind evaluations of loudspeakers. We discussed the science and philosophy behind how we design and measure the sound quality of our products.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
Geoffrey Morrison, an audio writer at CNET and Sound & Vision has posted a nice summary of my latest AES paper "Some New Evidence that Teenager and College Students May Prefer Accurate Sound Reproduction" presented at the recent 132nd AES Convention in Budapest, Hungary.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
On Tuesday, April 26th 2011, I will be giving a presentation at the meeting of the Los Angeles AES Chapter on several topics related to recent audio research at Harman International. The topics include:| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
Version 2.04 of Harman How to Listen is now available for download here.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive