Wave Field Synthesis systems are known to suffer from coloration. Depending on the applied number of loudspeakers comb-filter effects are present in the amplitude spectrum. In a listening experiment participants rated the perceived coloration of a synthesized point source compared to the reference case of a single loudspeaker. The point source was presented by two-channel stereophony and Wave Field Synthesis applying a circular loudspeaker array ranging from 14 up to 3 584 loudspeakers. Test participants were placed at different positions in the audience area for Wave Field Synthesis. The whole experiment was done using binaural synthesis.

Authors: Wierstorf, Hagen; Hohnerlein, Christoph; Spors, Sascha; Raake, Alexander
Affiliations: TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany(See document for exact affiliation information.)
AES Conference: 55th International Conference: Spatial Audio (August 2014)
Paper Number: 5-3
Publication Date: August 26, 2014 Import into BibTeX
Subject: Spatial Sound Psychophysics
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