7 terms
Ambisonics is a spatial audio format that captures a full sphere of sound as spherical harmonic components, decoded later to speakers or headphones.
Binaural audio is two-channel sound that reproduces the cues of both ears, letting headphone listeners hear sources around, above and behind them.
Dolby Atmos is an object-based spatial audio format that places sounds in three-dimensional space, including overhead, and renders them to any speaker layout.
An HRTF, or head-related transfer function, describes how the head, torso and outer ears filter sound from each direction before it reaches the eardrums.
Mono is single-channel audio in which every loudspeaker reproduces the same signal, the reference point for spatial audio formats and mix compatibility.
Stereo is a two-channel audio format that uses left and right signals to create a phantom image of sound sources positioned between two loudspeakers.
Surround sound is a spatial audio method that places loudspeakers around the listener, such as in 5.1 or 7.1 layouts, to reproduce sound from many directions.