This open access book provides a concise explanation of the fundamentals and background
of the surround sound recording and playback technology Ambisonics. It equips readers …

This work demonstrates a comprehensive methodology for capture, analysis, manipulation,
and reproduction of spatial sound-radiation. As the challenge herein, acoustic events need …

In this paper we present a complete acoustic survey of the British Broadcasting Corporation
Maida Vale recording studios. The paper outlines a fast room acoustic measurement …

The quote from Pierre Boulez, given as an epigraph to this article, inspired French
researchers to start developing technology for spherical loudspeaker arrays in the 1990s …

A prototype 2D surround sound system was developed to investigate the use of higher order
loudspeakers and active compensation to both eliminate unwanted reflections and to …

Spherical loudspeaker arrays, as concerned within this work, are a finite set of transducers
distributed on the surface of a sphere or platonic solid. The purpose of these arrays is to …

Sound directivity control is made possible by a compact array of independent loudspeakers
operating at the same frequency range. The drivers are usually distributed over a sphere …

Spherical loudspeaker arrays have been recently studied for directional sound radiation,
where the compact arrangement of the loudspeaker units around a sphere facilitated the …

The auditory impression of sound sources is strongly influenced by the room, which, eg,
determines the apparent source width. What is more, typical sources are not omnidirectional …

Ambisonics synthesizes sound fields as a sum over angular (spherical/cylindrical harmonic)
modes, resulting in the definition of an isotropically smooth angular resolution. This means …