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Conference Paper

Objective Measures of Listener Envelopment in Multichannel Surround Systems

Authors: Soulodre, Gilbert A.; Lavoie, Michel C.; Norcross, Scott G.

AES Conference: 24th International Conference: Multichannel Audio, The New Reality · Paper 31 · June 2003

Abstract

A common goal in multichannel musical recordings is to create a better approximation of the concert hall experience than can be achieved with a traditional stereo reproduction system. Listener envelopment (LEV) is known to be an important part of good concert hall acoustics and is therefore desirable in multichannel reproduction. A series of subjective tests were conducted to determine which acoustic parameters are important to the creation of LEV in multichannel surround systems. New frequency-dependent objective measures of LEV were derived and their ability to predict the subjective results was evaluated.

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Published in
AES Conference: 24th International Conference: Multichannel Audio, The New Reality
Paper number
31
Publication date
June 6, 2003
Session subject
Multichannel Audio
Affiliation
Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper