Author Archives: Sascha Spors

Article: Spatial Sound with Loudspeakers and its Perception: A review of the current state

In the last Proceedings of the IEEE S. Spors, H. Wierstorf, A. Raake, F. Melchior, M. Frank and F. Zotter published a review about the current state of spatial audio reproduction and its perception. Here we are adding supplementary material … Continue reading

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Paper: A Virtual Endfire Loudspeaker Array for the Generation of Sound Beams

The paper A Virtual Endfire Loudspeaker Array for the Generation of Sound Beams presented by Sascha Spors and Hagen Wiersorf at the AIA-DAGA Conference on Acoustics considers the synthesis of sound fields that are limited to a linear region in … Continue reading

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Article: Spatial perception of sound fields recorded by spherical microphone arrays with varying spatial resolution

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 … Continue reading

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CfP: EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics

Integrating the 2nd International Auralization Symposium, and the 5th International Symposium on Ambisonics and Spherical Acoustics Invitation and Call for Papers The EAA Joint Symposium on Auralization and Ambisonics will be held on 3–5 April, 2014 in Berlin, hosted by … Continue reading

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EAA Winter School — Cutting Edge in Spatial Audio

Franz Zotter has organized the course “Cutting Edge in Spatial Audio” at the EAA Winter School which was taking place before the 40th Italian (AIA) Annual Conference on Acoustics and the 39th German Annual Conference on Acoustics (DAGA) in Meran, … Continue reading

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How does a stereo sound that moves with supersonic speed?

The question how a stereo would sound that passes the listener at superonic speed was discussed in a recent post of XKCD. I was quite suprised that the publication Reproduction of Virtual Sound Sources Moving at Supersonic Speeds in Wave Field … Continue reading

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Spatial audio impulse response compilation

Benjamin Bernschütz from the Laboratory for Acoustics, Audio Technology and Audio Signal Processing of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences has released a set of acoustic measurements under the Creative Commons license. The released data includes spatial impulses captured at … Continue reading

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Special Session on Virtual Acoustics at AIA-DAGA 2013

The technical program of the AIA-DAGA 2013 — Conference on Acoustics is available for download (PDF). Franz Zotter, Filippo Fazi, Angelo Farina and myself have organized a special session on virtual acoustics. We have received more than 30 contributions which … Continue reading

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Paper: Spatial Audio with the SoundScape Renderer

At the 27th Tonmeistertagung – VDT International Convention, Matthias Geier has reported on the ongoing redesign of the SoundScape Renderer (SSR). The next generation of the SSR is based on a redesigned signal processing core that allows for multi-threaded processing. … Continue reading

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AES Conference on Sound Field Control, Engineering And Perception

The call for papers for the 52nd International Conference of the Audio Engineering Society considers contributions from Sound field control theory Sound field sampling for control purposes Signal processing for sound field control Active and adaptive sound control Transducers, array … Continue reading

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