Comparing Ambisonic Microphones—Part 2

Bates E, Dooney S, Gorzel M, O'Dwyer H, Ferguson L, Boland FM. Comparing Ambisonic Microphones—Part 2. In: AES Convention 142. Audio Engineering Society; 2017. Paper 9730. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18607

@inproceedings{Bates2017_18607,
  author = {Bates, Enda and Dooney, Sean and Gorzel, Marcin and O'Dwyer, Hugh and Ferguson, Luke and Boland, Francis M.},
  title = {{Comparing Ambisonic Microphones—Part 2}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 142},
  note = {Paper 9730},
  year = {2017},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18607}
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Comparing Ambisonic Microphones—Part 2
AU  - Bates, Enda
AU  - Dooney, Sean
AU  - Gorzel, Marcin
AU  - O'Dwyer, Hugh
AU  - Ferguson, Luke
AU  - Boland, Francis M.
T2  - AES Convention 142
M1  - Paper 9730
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/05/06
UR  - https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=18607
PB  - Audio Engineering Society
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AB  - This paper presents some further experiments devised to assess the performance of an expanded number of commercially available Ambisonic microphones. The subjective timbral and spatial quality of five microphones (Soundfield MKV, Core Sound TetraMic, Sennheiser Ambeo, MH Acoustics Eigenmike, and Zoom H2N) is assessed using listening tests and a recording of an acoustic quartet. Localization accuracy is assessed using an objective directional analysis and recordings from a spherical loudspeaker array. Intensity vectors are extracted from 25 critical frequency bands of the Bark scale and used to compute the angle to the source location. Significant differences were found between microphones with the Soundfield MKV and Eigenmike producing the best results in terms of timbral quality and localization respectively.
ER  -