By industry standard (ITU‐R. Recommendation BS.775‐1), multichannel stereophonic signals within the frequency range of up to 80 or 120 Hz may be mixed and delivered via a single driver (e.g., a subwoofer) without significant impairment of stereophonic sound quality. The assumption that stereophonic information within such low‐frequency content is not significant was tested by measuring discrimination thresholds for changes in interaural cross‐correlation (IACC) within spectral bands containing the lowest frequency components of low‐pitch musical tones. Performances were recorded for three different musical instruments playing single notes ranging in fundamental frequency from 41 Hz to 110 Hz. The recordings, made using a multichannel microphone array composed of five DPA 4006 pressure microphones, were processed to produce a set of stimuli that varied in interaural cross‐correlation (IACC) within a low‐frequency band, but were otherwise identical in a higher‐frequency band. This correlation processing was designed to have minimal effect upon other psychoacoustic variables such as loudness and timbre. The results show that changes in interaural cross correlation (IACC) within low‐frequency bands of low‐pitch musical tones are most easily discriminated when decorrelated signals are presented via subwoofers positioned at extreme lateral angles (far from the median plane). [Work supported by VRQ.]
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Low‐frequency interaural cross correlation discrimination in stereophonic reproduction of musical tones
Sungyoung Kim;
Sungyoung Kim
Faculty of Music, McGill Univ., 555 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1E3
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William L. Martens
William L. Martens
Faculty of Music, McGill Univ., 555 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 1E3
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 2392 (2005)
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Sungyoung Kim, William L. Martens; Low‐frequency interaural cross correlation discrimination in stereophonic reproduction of musical tones. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 April 2005; 117 (4_Supplement): 2392. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4785858
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