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Perceiving Low Pitch through Small Loudspeakers

Authors: Larsen, Erik; Aarts, Ronald M.

AES Convention 108 · Paper 5151 · February 2000

Abstract

Since the invention of the electrodynamic loudspeaker, there has been a need for greater acoustical output, especially at low frequencies. For modern-day applications it is desirable to reduce the volume of the loudspeaker (and cabinet). These two facts are physically contradictory. This paper offers options to evoke the illusion of a higher bass response while the power radiated by the loudspeaker at those low frequencies remains the same or even lower. This is feasible only by exploiting certain psychoacoustic phenomena. The required nonlinear signal processing was studied for a number of specific implementations in continuous and discrete time.:

Details

Published in
AES Convention 108
AES Convention
108
Paper number
5151
Publication date
February 6, 2000
Session subject
Audio Restoration and Enhancement
Affiliation
Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper