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14.4.2019
Personalised Headphone Listening • Part One
Aki Mäkivirta
15.2.2019
Keeping Installed Audio Simple
Aki Mäkivirta
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14.7.2019
Tuning In - Won’t Get Fooled Again
John Whitcore
For me it all began back in high school. Sure, I enjoyed riding dirt bikes and played my fair share of Atari, but I had a passion for music and playing guitar which eventually took me down the path o... Read more
29.6.2019
Hope, Determination, and the Courage to be Different
Siamäk Naghian
A while ago I was honoured to be invited to “No Child Should Grow Up Alone – 70 Years of Global Impact”, the 70th anniversary event of the SOS Children’s Village organized by the Finnish sect... Read more
9.6.2019
Will technology remove responsibility for the choices and actions of people?
Siamäk Naghian
Technology has become a human key-enabler and has radically increased the development pace of our lives. However, in the era of the digital and platform economy, we need to find new ways to work and ... Read more
14.4.2019
Personalised Headphone Listening • Part One
Aki Mäkivirta
You are so familiar with this phenomenon. The world is all around you, at all times. You were born to this and you grew up with this reality. Nothing could be more natural. Only recently have those w... Read more
1.3.2019
High SPL Monitoring: The Facts
Thomas Lund
The highest non-professional sound levels we encounter on a regular basis may easily exceed 110 dB SPL. Normally, that is not a health concern, provided integrated sound pressure per day (8 hours) is... Read more
15.2.2019
Keeping Installed Audio Simple
Aki Mäkivirta
Installed audio systems often contain a large number of loudspeakers, spread over a wide area to create an even distribution of audio inside a building or a hall. Traditionally, the challenge in inst... Read more
16.12.2018
To be great, be whole
Siamäk Naghian
Read in Finnish Earlier this week, I was honoured to receive the Vuoden Yritysjohtaja – the Enterprise Executive of the Year award from the Finnish, business-oriented newspaper Kauppalehti. I would... Read more
29.11.2018
Genelec – Over Four Decades In Search of The Most Truthful Sound
Siamäk Naghian
More than 40 years ago, in spring 1976, Juhani Borenius, an acoustician at the Finnish Broadcast Company YLE, asked Ilpo Martikainen and Topi Partanen if they could design and produce a reliable, hig... Read more
15.7.2018
The Sweeter Spot
Aki Mäkivirta
With stereo comes the concept of the sweet spot. Wikipedia defines it as “a term used by audiophiles and recording engineers to describe the focal point between two speakers, where an individual is... Read more