A loudspeaker-based room auralization (LoRA) system has been recently proposed which efficiently combines modern room acoustic modeling techniques with high-order Ambisonics (HOA) auralization to generate virtual auditory environments (VAEs). The reproduction of the distance of sound events in such VAE is very important for its fidelity. A direct-scaling distance perception experiment was conducted to evaluate the LoRA system including the use of near-field control (NFC) for HOA. Experimental results showed that (i) loudspeaker-based auralization in the LoRA system provides similar distance perception to that of the corresponding real environment and that (ii) NFC-HOA provides a significant increase in the range of perceived distances for near sound sources as compared to standard HOA.

Authors: Favrot, Sylvain; Buchholz, Jörg M.
Affiliation: Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
AES Convention: 127 (October 2009) Paper Number: 7854
Publication Date: October 1, 2009 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Virtual Acoustics
Permalink: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=15049

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