Effect of Listening Room on Audio Quality in Ambisonics Reproduction

Santala O, Vertanen H, Pekonen J, Oksanen J, Pulkki V. Effect of Listening Room on Audio Quality in Ambisonics Reproduction. In: AES Convention 126. Audio Engineering Society; 2009. Paper 7664. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=14860

@inproceedings{Santala2009_14860,
  author = {Santala, Olli and Vertanen, Heikki and Pekonen, Jussi and Oksanen, Jan and Pulkki, Ville},
  title = {{Effect of Listening Room on Audio Quality in Ambisonics Reproduction}},
  booktitle = {AES Convention 126},
  note = {Paper 7664},
  year = {2009},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=14860}
}

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AU  - Pulkki, Ville
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AB  - In multi-channel reproduction of spatial audio with first-order Ambisonics the loudspeaker signals are relatively coherent, which produces prominent coloration. The coloration artifacts have been suggested to depend on the acoustics of the listening room. This dependency was researched with subjective listening tests in an anechoic chamber with an octagonal loudspeaker setup. Different virtual listening rooms were created by adding diffuse reverberation with 0.25 seconds RT60 using a 3D 16-channel loudspeaker setup. In the test, the sub jects compared the audio quality in the virtual rooms. The results suggest that optimal audio quality was obtained when the virtual room effect and the direct sound were on equal level at the listening position.
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