The favored reflection conditions measure as comb filtering yet sound pleasing

Evidence

Comb filtering is often thought to be involved in all delayed sounds. However, a delayed sound arriving from a different horizontal angle than the direct sound is perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering. It adds to the information about the room. — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 729 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In principle, amplitude panning methods create a comb-filter effect in the ear canal signal spectra, since the same sound arrives from both loudspeakers at each ear with a small time difference. This effect is clearly audible in an anechoic chamber, where it produces a notch in the spectrum between frequencies of 1 kHz and 2 kHz. Fortunately, this effect is not present when listening in a normal room, since the room reverberation mitigates the colouring effect largely (Pulkki, 2001a). — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1890 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ground reflection colors all outdoor speech and creates comb-filter pitch; Comb filtering is unavoidable and not inherently unpleasant; Real reflections are attenuated enough to tame comb filtering drastically (+5 more)

Related

• Comb-filtering undulations from room reflections move to bass and become inaudible (similarity 0.94)
• Objectionable room perceptions are unlikely to stem from comb filtering (similarity 0.92)
• Room reverberation suppresses the comb-filter colouring of amplitude panning (similarity 0.90)
• Room reflections mitigate the phantom-center comb-filter dip near 2 kHz. (similarity 0.90)
• Steady-state comb-filter measurements fail to represent how transient sounds are heard (similarity 0.90)
• Ground reflection colors all outdoor speech and creates comb-filter pitch (similarity 0.89)
• Real reflections are attenuated enough to tame comb filtering drastically (similarity 0.87)
• Delayed sounds arriving from different angles are perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering (similarity 0.86)
• Object-based panning trades smooth motion for audible changes in tonal color (similarity 0.86)
• Reflections that appear as destructive comb filtering actually create perceived spaciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• Diffuse reflections reduce comb-filtering that perturbs stereo imaging (similarity 0.85)
• Binaural hearing transforms in-room comb filtering into perceived spaciousness (similarity 0.85)
• Late-arriving room sound becomes omnidirectional and uniformly distributed (similarity 0.83)
• Real-room reflections are attenuated and delayed, not equal-level and immediate. (similarity 0.83)
• Audible room deficiencies are rarely caused by comb filtering. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Delayed sounds arriving from different angles are perceived as spaciousness, not comb filtering #complicates (0.85) — , Toole, Floyd E - Sound reproduction-…, 729
• Room reverberation suppresses the comb-filter colouring of amplitude panning #complicates (0.80) — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1890