Sound field complexity does not change resonance detection thresholds

Evidence

An alternative goal of sound reproduction is to control the sound field within the loudspeaker set-up. This means that the pressure and velocity waves originating from the virtual sources are to be synthesized as plane waves or as spherical waves. The targeted sound field would then be well defined, and the reproduced sound field can also be simulated, or even measured. Unfortunately, the errors in the synthesis of the sound field between the targeted and reproduced fields do not say much about the perceptual significance of the deviation. Sometimes a small difference in the wave field causes a large perceptual deviation, and a large deviation in the wave field may be perceptually irrelevant in some cases. However, the advantage of this starting point is that the reproduction techniques can be derived mathematically. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1902 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reflections increase sensitivity to low and mid-Q resonances in reproduced sound; Low-Q resonance detection thresholds are remarkably low, making tonal changes easily audible.; Physical accuracy of a sound field does not predict perceived accuracy — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1902 (+1 more)

Related

• Physical accuracy of a sound field does not predict perceived accuracy (similarity 0.86)
• Spatial richness in multichannel sound inhibits perception of loudspeaker resonances (similarity 0.85)
• Reflections increase sensitivity to low and mid-Q resonances in reproduced sound (similarity 0.85)
• Sound reproduction’s endpoint is the human listener, not fidelity per se (similarity 0.84)
• Spatial envelopment requires uncorrelated ear signals, not a diffuse sound field (similarity 0.83)
• Low-Q resonance detection thresholds are remarkably low, making tonal changes easily audible. (similarity 0.82)
• Sound reproduction quality depends on both physical acoustics and human perception (similarity 0.81)
• Multichannel reproduction progressively masks loudspeaker resonances except low-Q ones. (similarity 0.81)
• Perceived sound direction and actual source direction need not coincide (similarity 0.80)
• Tone-control adjustments are easily heard because low-Q resonance thresholds are tiny (similarity 0.80)
• Sound quality is judged as deviations from ideal amounts of perceptual dimensions (similarity 0.80)
• Resonance Q reductions below about 16 are subjectively imperceptible (similarity 0.80)
• Adding damping to a resonance paradoxically makes it more audible by widening its bandwidth (similarity 0.80)
• High-Q resonances are rarely heard but catastrophically audible when music hits their exact frequency (similarity 0.80)
• Listeners can distinguish loudspeaker resonances from instrument resonances (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Physical accuracy of a sound field does not predict perceived accuracy #corroborates (0.85) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1902
• Spatial richness in multichannel sound inhibits perception of loudspeaker resonances #complicates (0.80)