Above: The brands and models of six popular headphones used in this study.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
The title pretty much says everything you need to know but as ever, the devil is in the detail! Let’s start with what HARMAN Phoenix is. Before I get to what HARMAN Phoenix is not, here are a few sample photos courtesy of the folks at HARMAN technology, plus a couple of not so creative […] The article New film day! Say hello to HARMAN Phoenix 200, a brand new mid-speed colour film first appeared on EMULSIVE.org.| EMULSIVE
This past month, I was interviewed by Bruel & Kjaer's, "Waves Magazine" in their Expert Profile feature. For those people not familiar with Bruel & Kjaer located in Denmark they are one of the oldest (in operation since 1942) best known manufacturers of acoustic and vibration measurement equipment.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
The predicted sound quality of 61 different models of in-ear headphones (blue curve) versus their retail price (green bars).| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
Fig. 1 The Harman Headphone Virtualizer App allows listeners to make double-blind comparisons of different headphones through a high-quality replicator headphone. The app has two listening modes: a sighted mode (shown) and a blind mode (not shown) where listeners are not biased by non-auditory factors (brand, price, celebrity endorsement,etc). Clicking on the picture will show a larger version.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
At the recent 137th convention of the Audio Engineering Society we presented our latest research paper entitled, "The Influence of Listeners' Experience, Age and Culture on Headphone Sound Quality Preferences."| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
The 2014 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook came out this week. In it, you can find an article I wrote called "Perceiving and Measuring Headphone Sound Quality: Do Listeners Agree on What Makes a Headphone Sound Good?"| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
October 14-16, I will be giving Science of Sound presentations for the Harman Luxury Audio Group (room #8020) at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) in Denver, CO. My demonstration will be repeated every 1/2 hour on the hour and half-hour.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive
Well, it's been some time coming, but the listener training software Harman How to Listen is finally available for free download here. This beta software is available in both Mac OSX and Windows versions.| Audio Musings by Sean Olive