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 

Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, & South Seas Broadcasting

Guest:

Sean Olive, Acoustic Research Fellow at HARMAN International

Show Links:

Sean Olive’s Blog, with links to articles and research

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Topics: Broadcast Engineering, audio, audio quality

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Topics: Broadcast Engineering

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Topics: Broadcast Engineering

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