This article presents an experimental study of spatial sound perception with the use of a spherical microphone array for sound recording and headphone-based binaural sound synthesis. Sound field analysis and processing is performed in the spherical harmonics domain with the use of head-related transfer functions and simulated enclosed sound fields. The effect of several factors, such as spherical harmonics order, frequency bandwidth, and spatial sampling, are investigated by applying the repertory grid technique to the results of the experiment, forming a clearer relation between sound-field capture with a spherical microphone array and its perception using binaural synthesis regarding space, frequency, and additional artifacts.
Amir Avni, Hagen Wierstorf, Matthias Geier, Jens Ahrens, Sascha Spors, and Boaz Rafaely. Spatial perception of sound fields recorded by spherical microphone arrays with varying spatial resolution. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JASA), 133(5):2711–2721, May 2013.
