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Using Ambisonics to Reconstruct Measured Soundfields

Authors: Clapp, Samuel W.; Guthrie, Anne E.; Braasch, Jonas; Xiang, Ning

AES Convention 135 · Paper 9002 · October 2013

Abstract

Spherical microphone arrays can measure a soundfield's spherical harmonic components, subject to certain bandwidth constraints depending on the array radius and the number and placement of the array's sensors. Ambisonics is designed to reconstruct the spherical harmonic components of a soundfield via a loudspeaker array and also faces certain limitations on its accuracy. This paper looks at how to reconcile these sometimes conflicting limitations to produce the optimum solution for decoding. In addition, binaural modeling is used as a method of evaluating the proposed decoding method and the accuracy with which it can reproduce a measured soundfield.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 135
AES Convention
135
Paper number
9002
Publication date
October 6, 2013
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA; Arup Acoustics, New York, NY, USA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper