A common goal in multichannel musical recordings is to create a better approximation of the concert hall experience than can be achieved with a traditional stereo reproduction system. Listener envelopment (LEV) is known to be an important part of good concert hall acoustics and is therefore desirable in multichannel reproduction. A series of subjective tests were conducted to determine which acoustic parameters are important to the creation of LEV in multichannel surround systems. New frequency-dependent objective measures of LEV were derived and their ability to predict the subjective results was evaluated.

Authors: Soulodre, Gilbert A.; Lavoie, Michel C.; Norcross, Scott G.
Affiliation: Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
AES Conference: 24th International Conference: Multichannel Audio, The New Reality (June 2003)
Paper Number: 31
Publication Date: June 1, 2003 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Multichannel Audio
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