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Perception of Reconstructed Sound-Fields: The Dirty Little Secret

Authors: Tucker, Anthony J.; Martens, William L.; Dickens, Glenn; Hollier, Michael P.

AES Conference: 52nd International Conference: Sound Field Control - Engineering and Perception · Paper 4-3 · September 2013

Abstract

This paper presents results of a pilot study regarding the perception of reconstructed sound-fields by a pairwise preference test between reproductions based upon perceptually versus mathematically posed objectives. These preliminary results suggest that increased calibration and accuracy, including loudspeaker signal time-alignment, was found to produce spatial imagery that is less preferred. Therefore a series of experiments have been launched to investigate the impact of reconstruction accuracy on user experience by selectively degrading spatial fidelity over the reproduction area. The dirty little secret, that higher accuracy does not produce preferred results, may well be revealed through such experimental studies.

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Published in
AES Conference: 52nd International Conference: Sound Field Control - Engineering and Perception
Paper number
4-3
Publication date
September 6, 2013
Session subject
Psychoacoustics
Affiliation
Dolby Laboratories, Sydney, Australia; Dolby Laboratories, San Francisco, CA, USA; The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Conference Paper