The Influence of Up- and Down-mixes on the Overall Listening Experience

Schoeffler M, Adami A, Herre J. The Influence of Up- and Down-mixes on the Overall Listening Experience. In: AES Convention 137. Audio Engineering Society; 2014. Paper 9140. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17463

@inproceedings{Schoeffler2014_17463,
  author = {Schoeffler, Michael and Adami, Alexander and Herre, Jürgen},
  title = {{The Influence of Up- and Down-mixes on the Overall Listening Experience}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 137},
  note = {Paper 9140},
  year = {2014},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=17463}
}

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AB  - Former studies have shown that up- and down-mix algorithms have a significant effect on ratings of audio quality. The question arises whether this significant effect is also verifiable when it comes to rating the overall listening experience of music. When listeners rate the overall listening experience, they are allowed to take everything into account that is important to them for enjoying a listening experience. An experiment was conducted where 25 participants rated the overall listening experience while listening to music that was artistically mixed and up- and down-mixed by six algorithms. The results show that there are no significant differences between the artistic mixes and the up- and down-mix algorithms except for two mixing algorithms which served as “lower anchors” and had a significant negative effect on the ratings.
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