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  1. tonmeister2008

    Some More Evidence that Kids (American and Japanese) Prefer Good Sound

    Geoffrey Morrison, an audio writer at CNET and Sound & Vision has posted a nice summary of my recent AES paper "Some New Evidence that Teenager and College Students May Prefer Accurate Sound Reproduction" presented at the recent 132nd AES Convention in Budapest, Hungary. The paper should be...
  2. tonmeister2008

    Harman's How to Listen Software is Now Available For Download

    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. We are pleased to offer the software packaged with four high quality music samples...
  3. tonmeister2008

    How to Listen: A Course in How to Critically Evaluate Sound Quality

    Next month, I will be giving a one day course on How to Listen at the 2011 ALMA Winter Symposium in Las Vegas,held Jan. 4th and 5th, just prior to the CES show. The symposium will also feature other courses, workshops and paper sessions on loudspeaker and headphone design, testing and...
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    Report: Teens Using Digital Drugs to Get High

    I knew there was something evil and addictive about digital audio and MP3. New scientific evidence has finally unraveled the mystery.
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    Why Live-Versus-Recorded Listening Tests Do Not Work

    Figure 1: Singer Frieda Hempel conducting a Tone Test at Edison Studios, NYC in 1918. Note that many of the listeners' ears are covered by the blind folds making it a double blind and double deaf listening test, since the experimenter Edison was deaf himself. Recently I was asked how I could...
  6. tonmeister2008

    Acura Use Tube Amps as Example of Money Wasted on Luxury

    I guess people who own tube amps won't be renewing their lease on their Acura:D "There are excuses for spending money on luxury, and then, there are reasons" Video is here
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    Are There Cross-Cultural Preferences in Quality of Reproduced Sound?

    Do we need a new user menu where you dial in your nationality to match your taste in sound quality? Click here for larger version of the picture The field of audio is ripe with myths and unsubstantiated opinions. One of the most enduring opinions is that there are cross-cultural preferences in...
  8. tonmeister2008

    Audio Science in the Service of Art

    “Audio Science in the service of art” is a philosophy in sound reproduction where the goal is to use science and technology to faithfully reproduce the art as the musical artist intended [1]. The art is the music, its performance, and the process of capturing it on the recording. The audio...
  9. tonmeister2008

    Science in the Service of Art is My Job --

    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...

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