title: Adaptive wave field synthesis for active sound field reproduction: experimental results.
abstract: Sound field reproduction has applications in music reproduction, spatial audio, sound environment reproduction, and experimental acoustics. Sound field reproduction can be used to artificially reproduce the spatial character of natural hearing. The objective is then to reproduce a sound field in a real reproduction environment. Wave field synthesis (WFS) is a known open-loop technology which assumes that the reproduction environment is anechoic. The room response thus reduces the quality of the physical sound field reproduction by WFS. In recent research papers, adaptive wave field synthesis (AWFS) was defined as a potential solution to compensate for these quality reductions from which WFS objective performance suffers. In this paper, AWFS is experimentally investigated as an active sound field reproduction system with a limited number of reproduction error sensors to compensate for the response of the listening environment. Two digital signal processing algorithms for AWFS are used for comparison purposes, one of which is based on independent radiation mode control. AWFS performed propagating sound field reproduction better than WFS in three tested reproduction spaces (hemianechoic chamber, standard laboratory space, and reverberation chamber).
authors.affiliation: Groupe d'Acoustique de l'Université de Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 boul. de l'Université, Sherbrooke, Québec J1K 2R1, Canada. philippe_aubert_gauthier@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Philippe-Aubert
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berry
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000465:Algorithms; D001307:Auditory Perception; D006801:Humans; D009146:Music; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013016:Sound