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 121 of the THD Podcast, Daniel Fletcher and Guy Fletcher (latter from Dire Straits fame) join to introduce and explain their groundbreaking spatial audio technology. Birthed at the intersection of speaker development and recording engineering experience and technology, Airsound Ltd. aims to deliver Studio-proven sound. They offer t...
Jul 29, 2025•48 min•Ep. 121
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 120 of the THD Podcast, Steph Bailey joins to tell us about the convergence of technologies that is going on with Syntiant's recent acquisition of Knowles' MEMS microphone business. Steph discusses how their widely deployed deep learning models, high-performance neural processors, MEMS microphones, and vibration sensors can bring t...
Jul 15, 2025•51 min•Ep. 120
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 119 of the THD Podcast, Simon Dinaburg and Jim Tuomy from Dinaburg Technology join to provide an update on the C2S™ driver technology and specifically, how it can be applied to headphone applications. Offering benefits to gaming, haptic, ANC and spatial audio in overear headphones in general. Dinaburg’s C2S™ 60×72 Gen2 is a high-pe...
Jul 08, 2025•44 min•Ep. 119
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 118 of the THD Podcast, Dani Cherkassky, CEO of Kardone, joins to give us an update. Kardome have added a new layer of technology to their offering with natural language understanding (NLU) models. Kardome’s break through technology improves voice recognition accuracy in challenging soundscapes, transforming voice UI from a cloud-d...
Jul 01, 2025•41 min•Ep. 118
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 117 of the THD Podcast, Markus Vaalgamaa and Laura Laaksonen join us from SoundlyFit. Soundlyfit provides digital design services for headphone companies to help improve earbud designs. These services include realistic comfort simulations, human ergonomics testing, and 3D ear database collection. The company uses advanced 3D scannin...
Jun 24, 2025•57 min•Ep. 117
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 116 of the THD Podcast, Jyri Pakarinen and Lawrence Iviani join to tell us about the new FlowDSP product from Tymphany. Flow DSP, developed and owned by Tymphany, is an Integrated Development Environment for Audio, including the easy-to-use, graphical Flow Studio design editor, hundreds of Flow Audio Object product-ready processing...
Jun 12, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 116
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 115 of the THD Podcast, Jeff Rogers, VP of Sales & Marketing, from Sensory, joins to tell us about their wake word detection technology. Sensory enables seamless voice activation across devices with AI-powered solutions for speech recognition, emergency vehicle detection, domain-specific voice assistants, biometrics, natural lan...
May 14, 2025•52 min•Ep. 115
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 114 of the THD Podcast, James Taylor sits down during the recent Hong Kong Electronics Fair to discuss the background of Frontier and their pathway forward with WiFi/BT Low Energy/Auracast modules. The timing is great for the market with a current gap in the supply so this looks to be a great move.Frontier is a pioneer in technologi...
Apr 29, 2025•25 min•Ep. 114
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 113 of the THD Podcast, Andrew Cresswell from ICEpower in Copenhagen joins to provide an insightful market update and some new product announcements. ICEpower exists to empower the audio industry to create new, exciting products. Through groundbreaking innovation and worldclass-knowledge, ICEpower develops and delivers superior sou...
Apr 22, 2025•35 min•Ep. 113
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 112 of the THD Podcast, Pauli Minnaar and Ivan Sandager from IDUN Audio join to tell us about their very cool spatial audio technology and how it creates a new dimension in listening. The way we use sound is changing. We are increasingly listening to digital media. This is driven by an exponential growth in audio content from online...
Apr 15, 2025•53 min•Ep. 112
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 111 of the THD Podcast, Stefan Liebich the CEO of Elevear joins again to announce their new AI-based Adaptive ANC that they will premiere at CES 2025—the first product in their groundbreaking series of AI-powered hearing enhancement technologies. Achieving high-performance ANC is challenging. It requires precise adaptation to diver...
Dec 30, 2024•39 min•Ep. 111
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 110 of the THD Podcast, Myvox from Stockholm joins us to tell us about their MEMS Speaker technology. Leveraging the Swedish talent of MEMS industry experts, academic research, and a few serial entrepreneurs, Myvox has been developing and researching world-leading cutting-edge MEMS speaker technologies, including haptics, acoustic ...
Dec 20, 2024•50 min•Ep. 110
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 109 of the THD Podcast, host Dave Lindberg speaks with Sahil Gupta and Nathan Caughel from Soundskrit. This Montreal-based company's MEMS microphone modules simplify integration, provide inherent directionality, and support advanced audio processing capabilities, which can significantly reduce development time and complexity for ma...
Dec 17, 2024•29 min•Ep. 109
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 108 of the THD Podcast, host Dave Lindberg speaks with guests Sebastian Jankowitsch and Mark Needham from Stream Unlimited, a company based in Vienna, Austria, known for its RF technology capabilities in audio, voice, and IoT devices. Stream Unlimited, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025, has a rich history in streami...
Dec 10, 2024•45 min•Ep. 108
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 107 of the THD Podcast, Marcos Simón of Audioscenic Limited joins us to tell us about their Amphi Hi-D technology, which is like your own personal multi-channel sound bubble that tracks your head. With projects already launched with famous brands like Razer Inc. and ASUS using their first gen tech, this next-generation virtual spat...
Nov 18, 2024•39 min•Ep. 107
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 106 of the THD Podcast, Ben Zenker of Zen Audio Engineering joins to explain the ideal exciter location on a flat panel speaker. With extensive measurements and data, Ben has a great breadth of knowledge on the ideal location on a panel for exciters based on the acoustic requirements. Check out the podcast on YouTube Spotify Amazon...
Oct 28, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 106
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 105, Frederic Nabki from Spark Microsystems in Montreal, Canada joins us to tell us about using UltraWide Band (UWB) for wireless audio transport. SPARK Microsystems ultra-wideband wireless transceivers are transforming augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), audio, gaming, and IoT devices. Delivering responsive low latenc...
Oct 01, 2024•37 min•Ep. 105
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 104, Michel Roig and Jonas Eklund from Audiodo in Malmö, Sweden join to tell us about their Personal Sound technology. Personal Sound is opening up a new world of audio solutions by optimizing sound for your unique hearing. With their patented technology, global headphone brands are giving each and every listener sound quality that...
Sep 24, 2024•44 min•Ep. 104
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 103, Jackie Green, the Technical Advisor for the UltraWide Band Alliance joins to explain how the UWB wireless technology works and its advantages for use in audio products. UWB Alliance is a global organization collectively establishing UWB technology as an open-standards, interoperable industry with a global ecosystem. Since 2019...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 103
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 102, Clement Lambert of Kartesian Acoustic joins us to talk about improving the dynamic capacity of drivers by focusing on the details like the delicacy of spider and surround design and how it impacts acoustic performance. Dedicated to audio excellence, Kartesian contributes to continually improving the sound quality of audio prod...
Jun 24, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 102
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 101, Konstantin Davy and Andrea Greco from USound join us to update us on the journey to bring MEMS speakers to the world. They have a new MEMS speaker called CONAMARA plus an ASIC called Tarvos which is a purpose-built audio amplifier to drive their speakers. In addition, they have partnered with Luxshare and OBO Pro to combine dy...
Jun 04, 2024•55 min•Ep. 101
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 100, Nikolaj Hviid, CEO of Bragi, joins to discuss the market in headphones and the challenges to differentiate plus the forward-looking trends. Check out the podcast on YouTube Spotify Amazon Music iHeartRadio Rumble BitChute Limited Apple Google Thanks to Barry Vogel and the ALTI Audio & Loudspeaker Technologies International...
May 28, 2024•45 min•Ep. 100
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 99, Dr Sean Olive from Harman International joins to explain the background and the rationale behind the Harman Headphone Target Curve. Some fascinating discussions on the evolution and some of the test procedures using scientific controls to produce a statistically significant study. Ultimately, it produces a line of fit between t...
May 13, 2024•45 min•Ep. 99
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 98, Aernout Arends the CEO of Absolute Audio Labs in the Netherlands joins to discuss their algorithm bridging the gaps from hearings to the OTC hearing assist devices. Absolute Audio Labs develops cutting-edge technology for Hearing and Voice applications. Their B2B Audio software suites - PYOUR Audio Hearing, Voice, and Safesound...
May 02, 2024•36 min•Ep. 98
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 97, Vince Rey of Hottinger Brüel & Kjær (HBK) joins again from California to discuss the Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle or ‘BSR’ test audio quality metric. It was developed by Dr. Wookeun Song (HBK). This BSR metric relies on deconvolution and time-varying loudness sound quality, considering frequency and time masking on the human ea...
Apr 23, 2024•51 min•Ep. 97
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 96, Stefan Liebich of Elevear joins to discuss their audio algorithms for hearables that cover occlusion, idle noise, and immersive 3D audio. Developed over many years and now being commercialized with key silicon partners. OCCLEAR® TECHNOLOGY NATURAL OWN VOICE THROUGH OCCLUSION CANCELLATION Existing headphones isolate the user fro...
Apr 09, 2024•44 min•Ep. 96
In episode 95, HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær's Vince Rey joins to discuss their new 5128 head & torso simulator (HATS) plus their 4620 couplers. HBK was formed in 2019 by merging two market-leading organizations: HBM and Brüel & Kjær. Both companies have over 80 years of experience providing innovative and high-quality solutions in precision test and measurement technology for various industries. Check out the podcast on YouTube Spotify Amazon Music iHeartRadio Rumble BitChute Limited...
Mar 27, 2024•48 min•Ep. 95
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 94, Marie-Eve Desrochers joins to introduce their technology that targets to bring efficiencies and speed to the edge in MEMS microphones. Echosonic aims to develop next-generation MEMS smart microphones using reservoir computing technology to enable on-sensor audio signal processing using machine learning for both inference and so...
Dec 20, 2023•30 min•Ep. 94
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 93, Dan Knighten, Product Line General Manager at Audio Precision joins to talk about their new low-cost APx516B Audio Analyzer. With the proliferation of digital audio interfaces, there’s an increasing need for a straightforward, budget-friendly analyzer for both digital and analog audio testing. The APx516B Series Audio Analyzer ...
Dec 20, 2023•33 min•Ep. 93
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 92, Steve Temme of Listen Inc. joins us for part 2 of the discussion. In this segment, Steve explains their algorithms for end-of-line production testing for detecting if you've got some particles or even a screwdriver left in your speaker from manufacturing. Listen is a world leader in audio and electroacoustic testing and measure...
Dec 04, 2023•28 min
