THD Podcast

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 62, Mickael Bouffaut and Rick Modina join the podcast to introduce their engineering and mass production facility. We think this is what people need to see in terms of how products are built. There is a massive gap between the shelf...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 61, Dr. Finnur Pind, CEO of Treble Technologies, joins to tell us about their cutting-edge sound simulation technology and processes. They are bringing this next generation technology to market with the vision of enabling designers o...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 60, Giles Tongue, CEO of CHATABLE joins to explain their technology that utilizes AI to enhance transparency mode and ultimately enhancing conversation. They have established a new partnership with Knowles Corporation on the IA8201 D...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast.  A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 59, we take a look at VM Sound's brand new production facility in Dongguan, China. VM Sound is a global leader in precision constructed liquid silicon rubber based earbud and headphone drivers. Utilizing optical grade injection...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 58, Ramesh Ramchandani, CEO of GraphAudio, joins us to tell us about how using their 100% pure graphene acoustics platform delivers superior size, quality, cost, plus ESG benefits versus existing options. GraphAudio is launching a re...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 57, Andrew Bellavia and Erik Wiederholtz from Knowles in Chicago join to discuss the latest trends in TWS earbuds including the hearing health convergence, and HD Audio. The conversation segues to the balanced armature technology fro...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 56, Martin Turesson of Composite Sound in Sweden joins to tell us about thin-ply carbon fiber speaker diaphragms. Starting with a new approach to processing the carbon fiber, Composite Sound controls the horizontal and the vertical....

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 55, Infineon Technologies joins to discuss their MEMs microphone product line and the nuances in designing the microphones plus the application of using them in voice command applications. Somu Goswami and Julian Kornprobst join the...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 54, Scott Hanson and Roger Serwy from Ambiq join us to discuss their ultra-low power edge processors. Ambiq is a fabless semiconductor  company developing the world’s most energy-efficient integrated  circuits. Built on Amb...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 53, Perry Teevens joins to tell us about NativeVoice. AI. Native Voice is the on-demand voice services library for access to the brands you rely on every day to help you get more done. They're on a mission to help you stay in the mom...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 52, Salvador Magdaleno-Adame joins as the principal of Salvador Consultant to tell us all about permanent magnets. A deep explanation of the different materials used and how magnets are designed. Specifics on how to design for loudsp...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 51, Geoff Hill of Hill Acoustics joins to introduce and explain the theory behind their Tetrahedral Loudspeaker Test Chambers. Hill Acoustics was formed, to promote loudspeaker test chambers based upon the Tetrahedral Test Chamber pr...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 50, Mike Klasco of Menlo Scientific joins to tell us tales of audio product development from DJ gear in the 1970s through to cutting edge  materials for audio today. Mike Klasco and his firm Menlo Scientific Ltd provides audio e...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 49, Aaron Johnson from Accumold joins to tell us all about the precision micro plastic injection process. Since 1985, Accumold® is recognized as a world-class, high-tech manufacturer of precision micro, small, and lead frame injectio...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 48, Peter Sung of LinSation joins to introduce their market approach with ANC modules and other acoustic designs. LinSation focuses on building high-quality sound UI solutions for their customers. They produce sound pick-up modules,...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 47, Dr. Vikrant Tomar of Fluent. AI joins to tell us about their machine learning algorithm that brings speech-to-intent processing on edge  devices with robust speech recognition in every language. Fluent.ai develops highly acc...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 46, our co-host Simon Weston spends some time explaining how the different approaches to ANC headphones work. We touch on a bit of the history of ANC headphones in consumer applications with the development by Dr. Bose as well as how...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 45, Jacob Soendergaard of HEAD Acoustics joins to tell us about utilizing psychoacoustic metrics to better understand and develop Active  Noise Cancellation (ANC) Headphones. We go off topic but it is a great discussion on using...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 44, Matt Engstrom of Shure joins to tell us about the 96-year history of the legendary performance of the Shure microphones. Good insight into their approach to product development and utilizing a global supply chain to bring product...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 43, Paul Beckmann of DSP Concepts joins to tell us about Audio Weaver. Audio Weaver is the fastest, trusted framework to craft audio  experiences that users love. Purpose-built to design, develop, and deploy embedded audio produ...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 42, Mathias Johansson of Dirac joins to tell us all about the signal processing technique to make all rooms, cars, and environments sound  good. A very detailed discussion on the technical as we like with the THD ;) Dirac specia...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 41, Dan Foley of Audio Precision joins to tell us all about the difference between an AP test system and using a soundcard to measure audio signals. Since its founding in 1984, Audio Precision© (AP) has evolved into the worldwide lea...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 40, Tom James Jr and Kevin Shove from LaVoce Speakers join to tell us all about premium Italian Pro Audio Speakers. Lavoce Italiana is a dynamic and fast-growing company specialized in LF/HF transducer design and production for the p...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 39, Paul Vedier and Peter Moeckel from Resonado in Chicago join the podcast to tell us about their Flat Core Speaker™ (FCS™) technology as a  novel type of electrodynamic speaker driver architecture engineered to enable efficien...

The Total Harmonic Discussion / the THD Podcast. A weekly discussion on audio and headphone technologies and the people who bring the technology to market. In episode 38, Nico Declunder and Bob Lyle of Freebit join us to talk about the perfect fit in the ear. In 2007 Freebit invented the ‘C-shape’ ergonomic and secure-fit interface which has now become a global standard. Since then they have partn...