Robust reproduction of sound zones with local sound orientation

Robust reproduction of sound zones with local sound orientation.

Pressure matching (PM) and planarity control (PC) methods can be used to reproduce local sound with a certain orientation at the listening zone, while suppressing the sound energy at the quiet zone. In this letter, regularized PM and PC, incorporating coarse error estimation, are introduced to increase the robustness in non-ideal reproduction scenarios. Facilitated by this, the interaction betw...

Local sound field reproduction using two closely spaced loudspeakers

When only two loudspeakers are used for the reproduction of sound for a single listener, time domain simulations show that it is advantageous that the two loudspeakers are very close together. The sound field reproduced by two loudspeakers that span 10 degrees as seen by the listener is simpler, and locally more similar to the sound field generated by a real sound source, than that reproduced b...

Personal Sound Zone Reproduction with Room Reflections

Spatial Sound Reproduction with Wave Field Synthesis

Stereophonic spatial sound reproduction systems with two, five, or more channels are designed for a certain listener position and work well in its vicinity, the so called sweet spot. For listeners at other positions, the quality of the spatial reproduction may be degraded. This contribution describes an advanced spatial reproduction technique called wave field synthesis. It is based on a physic...

Optimizing the planarity of sound zones

Reproduction of personal sound zones can be attempted by sound field synthesis, energy control, or a combination of both. Energy control methods can create an unpredictable pressure distribution in the listening zone. Sound field synthesis methods may be used to overcome this problem, but tend to produce a lower acoustic contrast between the zones. Here, we present a cost function to optimize t...