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Effect of Direction on Loudness for Wideband and Reverberant Sounds

Authors: Ellermeier, Wolfgang; Sivonen, Ville Pekka

AES Convention 120 · Paper 6821 · May 2006

Abstract

The effect of incidence angle on loudness was investigated for wideband and reverberant sounds. In an adaptive procedure, five listeners matched the loudness of a sound coming from five incidence angles in the horizontal plane to that of the same sound with frontal incidence. The stimuli were presented to the listeners via individual binaural synthesis. The results confirm that loudness depends on sound incidence angle, as it does for narrow-band, anechoic sounds. The directional effects, however, were attenuated with the wideband and reverberant stimuli used in the present investigation.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 120
AES Convention
120
Paper number
6821
Publication date
May 6, 2006
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, and Listening Tests
Affiliation
Aalborg University (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper