In this paper, an investigation into the localisation accuracy of Higher Order Ambisonic sound elds with reference to Vector Based Amplitude Panning (VBAP) is presented. The analysis is considered in relation to listeners who are not located in the acoustic sweet spot. The performance of velocity, energy, in-phase and psychoacoustically optimized Ambisonic decoders are compared over a horizontal-only 8-channel array. Results demonstrate that 3rd order Ambisonics with energy decode gives equivalent localisation performance to VBAP for o -centre listening.

Author: Kearney, Gavin
Affiliation: University of York, York, UK
AES Conference: 52nd International Conference: Sound Field Control - Engineering and Perception (September 2013)
Paper Number: P-6
Publication Date: September 2, 2013 Import into BibTeX
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