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http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2015.20.5.667

Subjective Listening Test based on Frontal Loudspeaker Array Reproduction System  

Yoo, Jae-hyoun (ETRI)
Jang, Daeyoung (ETRI)
Lee, Taejin (ETRI)
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Journal of Broadcast Engineering / v.20, no.5, 2015 , pp. 667-675 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the interest on the high-definition and high-quality broadcasting is increased, the request on the high quality sound signal is enlarged as well as on the video signal's quality. One factor contributing to the high-quality of audio signal is an expansion of reproduction channels like 10.2channel and 22.2channel, but there is a problem of speaker installation issue of these many channels. One solution to solve this problem, we can use frontal loudspeaker array reproduction technique making virtual surround sound. So in this paper, we introduce theocratical analysis on the Wave Field Synthesis used for speaker array based sound reproduction and also present the result about the subjective listening test of reproduction performance based on this technique to check the perfoemance of this system. As a result, we showed WFS based frontal loudspeaker array reproduction method could provide sufficient performance compared to conventional discrete 5.1 channel reproduction method.
Keywords
WFS; Wave Field Synthesis; frontal loudspeaker array; 3D audio;
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