another question is - is our auditory system able to take account of the curvature of a wavefront to estimate the distance of a source or does it only use other cues such as the spektral content of the sound etc etc
On 12/09/2012, Augustine Leudar <[email protected]> wrote: > hmm - thats weird because I get this effect even if the plane wave > isnt orthogonal to the array - perhaps something is configured > wrongly..... > > On 12/09/2012, Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:17:23PM +0100, Augustine Leudar wrote: >> >>> This is a question for those with knowledge of WFS. One of the >>> properties of plane waves propagated with a single line array on a >>> Wavefield synthesis system is that as you walk down the array the >>> sound "follows" you appearing to emanate from the nearest loudspeaker >>> . I was wondering if this was due to the precedence effect alone or if >>> something else was going on as well ? >> >> It will be the nearest speaker only if the direction of the source >> is orthogonal to the line array. >> >> What goes on is that the waves produced by the secondary sources >> (speakers) combine into a wave as would be produced by a real >> source in a particular direction and at a large distance. At >> least within the bandwidth which does not produce spatial aliasing, >> your ears/brain have no information at all to identify the speakers >> as separate sources, so there is no precedence effect involved. >> >> >> Ciao, >> >> -- >> FA >> >> A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. >> It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris >> and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sursound mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound >> > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
