Listening room compensation for wave field synthesis

Common room compensation algorithms are capable of dereverberating the listening room at some discrete points only. Outside these equalization points the sound quality is often even worse compared to the unequalized case. As wave £eld synthesis in principle allows to control the wave £eld within the listening area it can also be used to compensate for the re¤ections caused by the listening room in the complete listening area. We present a novel approach to listening room compensation which is based upon the theory of wave £eld synthesis and that results in a large compensated area.