Perceptual enhancement of wavefield synthesis by stereophonic means

AES: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 723-751

  Wittek, Helmut ^a,b   Rumsey, Francis ^a,c   Theile, Günther ^a,d  

^a AES ^*

^b SCHOEPS Mikrofone GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^d Institut fur Rundfunktechnik Munchen   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EAR SIGNALS; OPTIMIZED PHANTOM SOURCE IMAGING (OPSI); STEREOPHONIC REPRODUCTION;

STEREOPHONIC BROADCASTING;

EID: 34748874676     PISSN: 15494950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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