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title: TWiRT 337 - Predicting Headphone Sound Quality with Sean Olive | Telos Alliance
description: Sean Olive is the Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International, doing headphone measurements that mean something, both for consumers and for manufacturers.
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## TWiRT 337 - Predicting Headphone Sound Quality with Sean Olive | Telos Alliance

By [The Telos Alliance Team](https://blogs.telosalliance.com/author/telos-alliance-team) on Feb 17, 2017 1:00:00 PM

![TWiRT 337: Sean Olive on studio headphones and more](https://blogs.telosalliance.com/hs-fs/hubfs/TWIRT337.png?width=320&name=TWIRT337.png "TWiRT 337: Sean Olive on studio headphones and more")

# TWiRT 337 - Predicting Headphone Sound Quality with Sean Olive

How many times have you bought headphones or earbuds, only to be disappointed with their audio quality? Or maybe you were pleasantly surprised! Sean Olive is the Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International. He’s doing headphone qualitative measurements that mean something, both for consumers and for manufacturers, toward better audio from our wearables.

**Hosts:**

Chris Tobin, [IP-Solutionist](mailto:support@ipcodecs.com) 

[Kirk Harnack](http://about.me/kirkharnack), [The Telos Alliance](https://www.telosalliance.com/), [Delta Radio](http://www.deltaradio.net/), & [South Seas Broadcasting](http://www.southseasbroadcasting.com/)

**Guest:**

[Sean Olive, Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International](https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanolive)

**Show Links:**

[Sean Olive’s Blog, with links to articles and research](http://seanolive.blogspot.com/)

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