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An Investigation of 2-D Multizone Surround Sound Systems

Surround sound systems can produce a desired sound field over an extended region of space by using higher order Ambisonics. One application of this capability is the production of multiple independent soundfields in separate zones. This paper investigates multi-zone surround systems for the case of two dimensional reproduction. A least squares approach is used for deriving the loudspeaker weights for producing a desired single frequency wave field in one of N zones, while producing silence in the other N-1 zones. It is shown that reproduction in the active zone is more difficult when an inactive zone is in-line with the virtual sound source and the active zone. Methods for controlling this problem are discussed.

Author: Poletti, Mark
Affiliation: Industrial Research Limited
AES Convention:125 (October 2008) Paper Number:7551 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Multichannel Sound Reproduction

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