Spatial sound is an enhanced and immersive set of audio techniques which provides sound in three-dimensional virtual space. This comprehensive handbook sets out the basic principles and methods with a representative group of applications: sound field and spatial hearing; principles and analytic methods of various spatial sound systems, including two-channel stereophonic sound, and multichannel horizontal and spatial surround sound; ambisonics; wavefield synthesis; binaural playback and virtual auditory display; recording and synthesis, and storage and transmission of spatial sound signals; and objective and subjective evaluation. Applications range from cinemas to small mobile devices.

• The only book to review spatial sound principles and applications extensively
• Covers the whole field of spatial sound

The book suits researchers, graduate students, and specialist engineers in acoustics, audio, and signal processing.

Bosun Xie is the director of the Acoustics Lab at South China University of Technology, and a member of The Chinese State Key Lab of Subtropical Building Science. He is a vice-president of the Acoustical Society of China, a vice-chairman of the China Audio Engineering Society, a member of Acoustical Society of American (ASA), and a member of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).

1 Sound Field, Spatial Hearing, and Sound Reproduction

2 Two-Channel Stereophonic Sound

3 Basic Principle and Analysis on Multichannel Surround Sound

4 Multichannel Horizontal Surround Sound with a Regular Loudspeaker Configuration

5 Multichannel Horizontal Surround Sound with Irregular Loudspeaker Configuration

6 Multichannel Spatial Surround Sound

7 Microphone and Signal Simulation Techniques for Multichannel Sound

8 Matrix Surround Sound and Downmixing/Upmixing of Multichannel Sound Signals

9 Physical Analysis on Multichannel Sound Field Recording and Reconstruction

10 Spatial Sound Reproduction by Wave Field Synthesis

11 Binaural Reproduction and Virtual Auditory Display

12 Binaural Pressures and Auditory Model Analysis on Spatial Sound Reproduction

13 Storage and Transmission of Spatial Sound Signals

14 Acoustic Conditions and Requirements for the Subjective Assessment and Monitoring of Spatial Sound

15 Psychoacoustic and Subjective Assessment Experiments on Spatial Sound

16 Applications of Spatial Sound and Related Problems

Appendix A Spherical Harmonic Functions

Appendix B Some Statistical Methods for the Data of Psychoacoustic and Subjective Assessment Experiment

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