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Reproduction of Loudspeaker Listening-Room Sound through Headphones: Measured Coherence Analysis, Cross Spectra, and Digital Filter Impulse Responses

Authors: Ganjian, Victor B.; Preis, Douglas

AES Convention 105 · Paper 4807 · September 1998

Abstract

Experimental measurements are reported indicating the frequency-dependent coherence (statistical linear dependence) between a white-noise signal measured at an artificial eardrum representative of a headphone listener and the corresponding, white-noise signal measured at various distances from a loudspeaker in a typical listening room. The cross spectrum, used in coherence analysis, defines the complex frequency response of the linear filter that will modify the earphone signal to sound like the loudspeaker in the listening room. At progressively greater distances from the loudspeaker, the coherence function decreases indicating reduced frequency-dependent signal-to-noise ratio, due, most likely, to increased incoherent reverberant sound, so that linear filtering cannot, in general, accurately reproduce the listening-room sound.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 105
AES Convention
105
Paper number
4807
Publication date
September 6, 1998
Session subject
Spatial Perception and Processing
Affiliation
Tufts University, Medford, MA (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper