Sean Olive

Senior Fellow @Harman, Past President @AESorg, Ph.D in #Sound #Acoustics #psychoacoustics #audio #Canadian #wine #headphones #Habs #McGillAlumni

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

The spring 2022 edition of Acoustics Today is out where you can read my article "The Perception & Measurement of Headphone Sound Quality: What do Listeners Prefer"..

https://t.co/IPKvY8KuHE

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

There is a free Listen Inc seminar on automotive audio measurements on. November 19 in Cupertino. I will be giving a presentation on the Evolution of Automotive Audio Sound Quality Evaluation as well. You can register using this link.

https://t.co/N5rkvnPnos

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

A birthday gift. The first open-back headphone from @HyperX. All the benefits of an open-back headphone without the usual defect: this one has real bass

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

I recently presented “How Much Headphone Personalization Do Listeners Need?” at CanJam SoCal 2026. Below is an article summarizing that presentation that you can read here: https://t.co/yUbI9ICctW

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

What makes a good listening panelist? At the recent Hear3D CanJam listening tests, we used eGauge to evaluate how reliably listeners rated different spatial renderings of stereo over headphones—and how effectively they discriminated among them. Read on.
https://t.co/U4JBVgiEm6

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

Todd Welti and I will be at CanJam Socal next weekend and are looking for volunteers for feedback on different spatial renderings available on headphones. We've provided a signup sheet at the link below. Thank you & hope to see you there.
https://t.co/HgHYi1Zn7z

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@noaudiophile So there is no such thing as a ground truth for room correction.Period.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

Can AI learn to predict automotive sound quality?

Yes—but only if we first give it reliable measurements of the right physical cues and trustworthy labels from human listeners.

https://t.co/FNkLY30qL8

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@noaudiophile I am unaware of any scientific work or paper that has claimed a single in-room target will work across all speakers and rooms — you need to have at minimum the spin measurements of the speakers, and consider the listening distance and room acoustics.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@nsokolsky @dieworkwear Maybe the richest but not the happiest.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

An article on choosing portable Bluetooth loudspeakers with a quote from me. https://t.co/LC2qFoF5e9

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@mndamico What draft pick was Lane Hutson? 62nd. We will be fine.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@SportsCenter Messier called it. Montreal wins game 7 b/c of Dobes.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@EricEngels How do the Habs go from leading 3-1 to losing 3-5 after 2 periods? Four unanswered goals.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@AlejandroCasaas @mndamico You got that backwards
January 1, 2026: Montreal defeated Carolina 7–5 at Lenovo Center.
March 24, 2026: Montreal defeated Carolina 5–2 at the Bell Centre.
March 29, 2026: Montreal defeated Carolina 3–1 at Lenovo Center.

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@LifelongCaboose @ResolveReviews Weird stuff. Not sure i want to watch me getting inside someone’s head

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

The schedule for the upcoming AES Europe 2026 convention is live including the abstract for our paper.

https://t.co/TGQaAyQ9pW+ @sched

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

https://t.co/zFo77qkJrd?

[Sean Olive @seanolive]

@kazemachi Except i no longer work at Harman as of May 2025. I am now an independent consultant