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Convention Paper

Hybrid Equalization of Room for Home Theatre System

Authors: Kim, Lae-Hoon; Jeon, Jae-Jin; Lee, Sin-lyul; Sung, Koeng-Mo

AES Convention 115 · Paper 5943 · October 2003

Abstract

For home theatre systems, it is necessary to equalize the room impulse responses. It is well known that the perfect inverse filtering over the entire audio frequency range is hard to be met due to the perturbations such as a listener's head movement. For securing larger 'sweet region' we measured at 18 points 3cm at regular intervals horizontally around the both ears position. We synthesize one representative impulse response of these 18 impulse responses in the position-weighted manner using principal component analysis method. We apply this representative impulse response as the target of inverse filtering. For inverse filtering we apply two different methods into two frequency ranges. In the low frequency range we realize a perfect inverse filter using least square method, in the high frequency range we realize linear phase finite impulse response inverse filter using 1/3 octave band frequency magnitude response smoothing. Using this inverse filter we can confirm well-equalized high sound quality in the entire sweet region from the result of experiment.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 115
AES Convention
115
Paper number
5943
Publication date
October 6, 2003
Session subject
Room Acoustics
Affiliation
Applied Acoustics Lab., School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Republic of Korea (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper