On the relative importance of spatial and timbral fidelities in judgments of degraded multichannel audio quality

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 968-976

  Rumsey, Francis ^a   Zieliński, Sławomir ^a   Kassier, Rafael ^a   Bech, Søren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANG AND OLUFSEN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FIDELITY SCALES; MULTICHANNEL AUDIO; SOUND QUALITY; SPATIAL FIDELITY;

AUDITION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSIC; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 23744489095     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1945368     Document Type: Article

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