Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 04/01/2012 11:55 AM, Augustine Leudar wrote: I am getting a many opinions on this as possible and I have now heard various answers. It specifically relates to boosted band and, in this scenario, elevation cues in the median plane . Blauert's 1969 experiment showed that if an if a narrow band n

Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Dobson
Thanks for the ref. Pity, it is AES, which I am not a member of, and $20 is a lot to pay for a 29-yr-old paper of mostly anecdotal interest :-( Richard Dobson On 01/04/2012 13:36, Eero Aro wrote: Richard Dobson wrote: Out of interest - what research has been done on this where the listeners w

Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Eero Aro
Richard Dobson wrote: Out of interest - what research has been done on this where the listeners were lying down? The subject is not my area, but I know of an old paper: James Lackner: Influence of Posture on the Spatial Localization of Sound http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=4554 Eero

Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Dobson
Out of interest - what research has been done on this where the listeners were lying down? Do they hear such sounds still as "above", or behind their heads? And, in the same vein, one the degree of such perception with respect to intensity? Richard Dobson On 01/04/2012 12:56, Robert Greene

Re: [Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Robert Greene
Actually, I think the ear/brain does not make this distinction without pattern recogntion, in other words, the height impression to the extent that it arises from spectrum of the sound depends on what the ear/brain expects the actual sound to be. There is a similar effect about frontal versus rea

[Sursound] Question about directional bands

2012-04-01 Thread Augustine Leudar
I am getting a many opinions on this as possible and I have now heard various answers. It specifically relates to boosted band and, in this scenario, elevation cues in the median plane . Blauert's 1969 experiment showed that if an if a narrow band noise or sinusoid wave with a centre frequency of 8