Evaluating the sensation of envelopment arising from 5-channel surround sound recordings

Audio Engineering Society - 124th Audio Engineering Society Convention 2008

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 657-677

  George, Sunish ^a   Zielinski, Slawomir ^a   Rumsey, Francis ^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

CONTINUOUS SCALE; DENMARK; LISTENING TESTS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SOUND RECORDING;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES;

EID: 84866498546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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