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Improved Externalization and Frontal Perception of Headphone Signals

Externalization of spatial images depend on the recreation of the ratio between interaural time differences and interaural level differences. Front/back discrimination depends on the proper balance of loudness between the backward and forward directional bands and presumably also on the degree of binaural fusion. A system is described which will improve externalization and frontal perception of a normal stereophonic recording when listened to via headphones.

Author: Weinrich, Søren Gert
Affiliation: Oticon A/S Research Unit, Snekkersten, Denmark
AES Convention:92 (March 1992) Paper Number:3291 Import into BibTeX
Subject:Psychoacoustics

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