Binaural Room Scanning (BRS) is a method of capturing a binaural representation of a room using a dummy head with binaural microphones in the ears and later reproducing it over a pair of calibrated headphones. In this method multiple measurements are made at differing head angles that are stored separately as data files. A playback system employing headphones and a headtracker recreates the original environment for the listener, so that as they turn their head, the rendered audio during playback matches the listeners' current head angle. This paper reports the results of a validation test of a custom BRS system that was developed for research and evaluation of different loudspeakers and different listening spaces. To validate the performance of the BRS system, listening evaluations of different in-room equalizations of a 5.1 loudspeaker system were made both in situ and via the BRS system. This was repeated using three different loudspeaker systems in three different sized listening rooms.

Authors: Gedemer, Linda A.; Welti, Todd
Affiliations: University of Salford, Salford, UK; Harman International, Northridge, CA, USA(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Convention: 135 (October 2013) Paper Number: 8974
Publication Date: October 16, 2013 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Perception
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