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About the Author
Sean E. Olive
sean.olive@harman.com
Harman International
8500 Balboa Boulevard Northridge, California 91329, USA
Sean E. Olive studied music at the Uni-
versity of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, and sound recording at McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he received master’s and PhD degrees. He is a senior fellow in acoustic research at Harman International,
Northridge, California, focused on research in sound quality of reproduced sound. He has published over 50 research papers for which he received Fellow of the Audio Engineer- ing Society (AES), two AES publications awards, and the ALMA Titanium Award. Sean is the past president of AES.
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