Four distinct multichannel playback rooms were compared in this study. In each room, we played three classical music pieces mixed for 22.2 and 2 channels, respectively, and generated corresponding binaural recordings. Fifteen trained listeners participated in a listening experiment where they compared four rooms on ?ve salient attributes: perceived width, perceived depth, spatial clarity, impression being enveloped, and spectral balance of the sound ?eld. A factor analysis shows that two factors accounted for about 70% of the total variance. The ?rst factor is associated with spatial dimension of a sound ?eld and the second factor with spectral and spatial integration (or blend) of sound components.

Authors: Kim, Sungyoung; King, Richard; Kamekawa, Toru; Sakamoto, Shuichi
Affiliations: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA; McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan; Tokyo University, Sendai, Japan(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference: 2018 AES International Conference on Spatial Reproduction - Aesthetics and Science (July 2018)
Paper Number: P6-1
Publication Date: July 30, 2018 Import into BibTeX
Session Subject: Immersive sound; Room-related influence; Binaural comparison; Everyday listening experience
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