The Difference between Stereophony and Wave Field Synthesis in the Context of Popular Music

Hold C, Wierstorf H, Raake A. The Difference between Stereophony and Wave Field Synthesis in the Context of Popular Music. In: AES Convention 140. Audio Engineering Society; 2016. Paper 9533. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18232

@inproceedings{Hold2016_18232,
  author = {Hold, Christoph and Wierstorf, Hagen and Raake, Alexander},
  title = {{The Difference between Stereophony and Wave Field Synthesis in the Context of Popular Music}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 140},
  note = {Paper 9533},
  year = {2016},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18232}
}

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AB  - Stereophony and Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) are capable of providing the listener with a rich spatial audio experience. They both come with different advantages and challenges. Due to different requirements during the music production stage, a meaningful direct comparison of both methods has rarely been carried out in previous research. As stereophony relies on a channel- and WFS on a model-based approach, the same mix cannot be used for both systems. In this study mixes of different popular-music recordings have been generated, each for two-channel stereophony, surround stereophony, and WFS. The focus is on comparability between the reproduction systems in terms of the resulting sound quality. In a paired-comparison test listeners rated their preferred listening experience.
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