Identification of quality attributes of spatial audio by repertory grid technique

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 365-379

  Berg, Jan ^a   Rumsey, Francis ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); QUALITY CONTROL; SOUND REPRODUCTION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE; VERBAL DESCRIPTORS;

AUDIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745259876     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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