High-quality multichannel audio coding: Trends and challenges

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 588-595

  Bosi, Marina ^a  

^a AES Member Digital Theater Systems Inc   (United States)

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