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Convention Paper

Effect of Direction on Loudness in Individual Binaural Synthesis

Authors: Ellermeier, Wolfgang; Minnaar, Pauli; Sivonen, Ville

AES Convention 118 · Paper 6512 · May 2005

Abstract

The effect of sound incidence angle on loudness is investigated in this study using binaural synthesis. Individual head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) and headphone equalization are used to present narrow-band noises from different directions to listeners. Their task is to match the loudness of these stimuli in an adaptive procedure to a reference noise in front of the listeners. The results are compared to an earlier investigation with the same experimental design in a real sound field. Based on the results the role of the individual HRTFs in loudness judgments is inspected, and finally, binaural loudness summation of signals presented to the two ears is examined.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 118
AES Convention
118
Paper number
6512
Publication date
May 6, 2005
Session subject
Psychoacoustics, Perception, Listening Tests
Affiliation
Aalborg University (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper