Quasi-Anechoic Loudspeaker Measurements: a “Step”Forward

Saronni D. Quasi-Anechoic Loudspeaker Measurements: a “Step”Forward. In: Express Paper. Audio Engineering Society; 2026. Paper 414. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23250

@inproceedings{Saronni2026_23250,
  author = {Saronni, Davide},
  title = {{Quasi-Anechoic Loudspeaker Measurements: a “Step”Forward}},
  note = {Paper 414},
  year = {2026},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23250}
}

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AB  - Measuring the anechoic response of a loudspeaker system requires spaces and facilities that are not commonly available. Over time, quasi-anechoic measurement techniques have become increasingly popular, enabling the exclusion of environmental reflections by time-gating the impulse response. However, the length of the time window results in a loss of information regarding low frequencies; to recover this information, the most commonly used technique is the near-field measurement described by D. B. Keele Jr. in his paper [1]. The merging of near-field and far-field responses is usually performed in the frequency domain using the Struck-Temme tecnique [2]. How does the method perform when applied in the time domain? The goal of this work is to use the near-field impulse response to reconstruct the portion of the far-field impulse response affected by environmental reflections.
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