Audio Examples

Audio examples for “Perceptual Evaluation of Different Methods for Binaural Rendering of Recordings With Various Microphone Arrays”.

Conditions Table

Combinations of microphone arrays and rendering methods
assessed in the perceptual evaluation.
Microphone Array	Encoding	Decoding	Denotation
EMA8	-	MTB	MTB8
EMA16	-	MTB	MTB16
EMA8	EMA N=4	MagLS N=4	EMA N4
EMA16	EMA N=7	MagLS N=7	EMA N7
Sennheiser Ambeo	Ambisonics N=1	MagLS N=1	Ambeo
Zylia ZM-1	Ambisonics N=3	MagLS N=3	Zylia
mhacoustics em32 Eigenmike	Ambisonics N=4	MagLS N=4	em32
HØSMA-7N MKII	Ambisonics N=7	MagLS N=7	HØSMA
EMA8	EMA N=4	COMPASS	EMA N4 C
EMA16	EMA N=7	COMPASS	EMA N7 C
Sennheiser Ambeo	Ambisonics N=1	COMPASS	Ambeo C
Zylia ZM-1	Ambisonics N=3	COMPASS	Zylia C
mhacoustics em32 Eigenmike	Ambisonics N=4	COMPASS	em32 C
HØSMA-7N MKII	Ambisonics N=7	COMPASS	HØSMA C
Sennheiser Ambeo	Ambisonics N=1	MS Stereo	Stereo

Binaural Renderings

In the listening experiment, all renderings except the stereo rendering were presented as horizontal plane head-tracked binaural streams using the SoundScape Renderer in binaural playback mode. The streams were rendered with 1° resolution in the horizontal plane, ranging from -45° to 45°. The following audio files contain renderings for both rooms at the 0° head orientation to provide an idea of what the assessed binaural renderings sounded like. All renderings are diffuse-field equalized, i.e., they are filtered with the inverse common transfer function of the FABIAN dummy head.