Recreating a sound field

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DIGITAL SOUND FIELD PROCESSING (DSP)

Recreating the sound field of a concert hall or an opera house requires localizing the virtual sound sources in your listening room. The traditional stereo system that uses only two speakers is not capable of recreating a realistic sound field. Yamaha’s DSP requires four effect speakers to recreate sound fields based on the measured sound field data. The processor controls the strength and delay time of the signals output from the four effect speakers to localize the virtual sound sources in a full circle around the listener.

The DSP sound field programs can be classified in two types based on the sound field processing method: programs that use early reflections only and programs that use both early reflections and reverberation.

Illustration of the virtual sound sources and echo patterns

The virtual sound sources and echo patterns for the DSP sound field programs are shown below. The illustration of the virtual sound sources shows early reflection sound only and the illustration of the echo patterns shows both reflected sound and reverberation.

Virtual sound sources

The center of these circles represent the virtual sound source.

The size of the circle indicates the strength of the virtual sound source.

The direct sound source

The listening position

Echo patterns

Direct sound source

Early reflections

Reverberation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

50 – 80 msec

PROGRAMS

SOUNDFIELD

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E-87