Distance attenuation control of spherical loudspeaker array

This paper describes control of distance attenuation using spherical loudspeaker array. Fisher et al. proposed radial filtering with spherical microphone to control the sensitivity to distance from a sound source by modeling the propagation of waves in spherical harmonic domain. Since transfer functions are not changed by swapping their inputs and outputs, we can use the same theory of radial filtering for microphone arrays to the filter design of distance attenuation control with loudspeaker arrays. Experimental results confirmed that the proposed method is effective in low frequencies.