Comparison of higher order ambisonics and wave field synthesis with respect to spatial discretization artifacts in time domain

Proceedings of the AES International Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Ahrens, Jens ^a   Wierstorf, Hagen ^a   Spors, Sascha ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICAL PROPERTIES; DRIVING FUNCTIONS; FINITE NUMBER; HIGHER ORDER; HUMAN AUDITORY SYSTEM; LOUDSPEAKER ARRAY; NEAR-FIELD; PRECEDENCE EFFECT; SPATIAL BANDWIDTH; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; TIME DOMAIN; WAVE FIELD SYNTHESIS;

AUDIO ACOUSTICS; AUDITION; LOUDSPEAKERS; SOUND REPRODUCTION; WAVEFRONTS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 79953810232     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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