Hello Everyone:
I just joined this forum at the invitation of one of the moderators.
I am currently Director of Acoustic Research for Harman International a large audio company involved in the professional, consumer and automotive audio spaces. Our brands include JBL, HK, Infinity, Revel, Lexicon, AKG, and Mark Levinson.
I'm responsible for directing the Corporate R&D group, where we work on things like developing a multichannel acoustic measurement system, working on methods to tame acoustical interactions between loudspeakers and rooms, developing a binaural room scanning system, creating new listener training software to teach people how to become better critical listeners, and most importantly, developing state of the art listening test methods and facilities for evaluating and testing the sound quality our products (as well as our competitors')
Prior to working at Harman, from 1985-1993, I worked at the Acoustics and Signal Processing Group at Canada's National Research Council in Ottawa where I worked with Dr. Floyd Toole on research related to loudspeakers, rooms, microphones,etc. Prior to that I studied music (piano), which eventually led to Masters and PhD degrees in Sound Recording (hence, by Tonmeister pen name).
I also write a blog on the science of audio called Audio Musings. The article I just wrote today summarizes some recent listening experiments that show evidence that sound quality is not lost on Generation Y. For me, this is very encouraging as there is hope that the future of sound quality in sound reproduction will continue on, in spite of what the media is reporting these days.
I look forward to future interesting discussions.
Cheers
Sean Olive
I just joined this forum at the invitation of one of the moderators.
I am currently Director of Acoustic Research for Harman International a large audio company involved in the professional, consumer and automotive audio spaces. Our brands include JBL, HK, Infinity, Revel, Lexicon, AKG, and Mark Levinson.
I'm responsible for directing the Corporate R&D group, where we work on things like developing a multichannel acoustic measurement system, working on methods to tame acoustical interactions between loudspeakers and rooms, developing a binaural room scanning system, creating new listener training software to teach people how to become better critical listeners, and most importantly, developing state of the art listening test methods and facilities for evaluating and testing the sound quality our products (as well as our competitors')
Prior to working at Harman, from 1985-1993, I worked at the Acoustics and Signal Processing Group at Canada's National Research Council in Ottawa where I worked with Dr. Floyd Toole on research related to loudspeakers, rooms, microphones,etc. Prior to that I studied music (piano), which eventually led to Masters and PhD degrees in Sound Recording (hence, by Tonmeister pen name).
I also write a blog on the science of audio called Audio Musings. The article I just wrote today summarizes some recent listening experiments that show evidence that sound quality is not lost on Generation Y. For me, this is very encouraging as there is hope that the future of sound quality in sound reproduction will continue on, in spite of what the media is reporting these days.
I look forward to future interesting discussions.
Cheers
Sean Olive
