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07.10.2006 Angelo Farina
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Complete high-order MIMO method
§Employing massive arrays of transducers, it will be feasible to sample the acoustical temporal-spatial transfer function of a room §Currently available hardware and software tools make this practical only up to 4° order, which means 25 inputs and 25 outputs §A complete measurement for a given source-receiver position pair takes approximately 10 minutes (25 sine sweeps of 15s each are generated one after the other, while all the microphone signals are sampled simultaneously) §However, it has been seen that real-world sources can be already approximated quite well with 2°-order functions, and even the human HRTF directivites are reasonally approximated with 3°-order functions.
Portable PC with 24in-24out channels external sound card
2°-order 9-loudspeakers source (dodechaedron)
3°-order 24-capsules microphone array