Effect of Skill Level on Listener Performance in 3D Audio Evaluation

Influence of the Listening Environment on Recognition of Immersive Reproduction of Orchestral Music Sound Scenes

“…In the current study, listeners can be broadly separated into two different "experience" groups: those with previous experience or proficiency with audio production and hearing 3D audio reproduced through a 22.2-channel system and those without either of said types of experience. Howie et al have examined the effect of different types of previous experience on listener performance [42] and skill level [55] in 3D audio evaluation. As with the current study, Howie et al used immersive recordings of orchestral music as stimuli.…”

Perceptual Comparison of 3D Audio Reproduction With and Without Bottom Channels

“…The main exception is "Timbre," which is a relatively multimodal term. Rather than investigate a simple bi-polar comparison of one aspect of timbre, such as "Bright" vs. "Dark," it was decided to examine a higher-order aspect of timbre, "Naturalness of Timbre," a term that proved effective in evaluating perceptual differences between various 3D sound capture methods in two previous studies [26,39]. "Preference" was also included for investigation to enable a more direct comparison of the current study's findings with results from the study by Grewe et al [16] (see: SEC.…”