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Convention Paper

On Spatial-Aliasing-Free Sound Field Reproduction Using Finite Length Line Source Arrays

Authors: Schultz, Frank; Rettberg, Till; Spors, Sascha

AES Convention 137 · Paper 9098 · October 2014

Abstract

Concert sound reinforcement systems aim at the reproduction of homogeneous sound fields over extended audiences for the whole audio bandwidth. For the last two decades this has been mostly approached by using so called line source arrays for which Wavefront Sculpture Technology (WST) was introduced in the literature. The paper utilizes a signal processing model developed for sound field synthesis in order to analyze and expand WST criteria for straight arrays. Starting with the driving function for an infinite and continuous linear array, spatial truncation and discretization are subsequently taken into account. The role of the involved loudspeakers as a spatial lowpass filter is stressed, which can reduce undesired spatial aliasing contributions. The paper aims to give a better insight on how to interpret the synthesized sound fields.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 137
AES Convention
137
Paper number
9098
Publication date
October 6, 2014
Session subject
Spatial Audio
Affiliation
University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper