[AUDITORY] Listening test participation request: research paper on binaural rendering

[Bartłomiej Mróz <00000500ec24e180-dmarc-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear AUDITORY list,
(Apologies for cross-posting!)

We are running a web-based MUSHRA listening test and are looking for 
listeners. It compares methods that render first-order Ambisonic 
recordings to binaural headphone audio, against a binaural recording as 
the reference. The material comes from two sources: the 3D-MARCo 
database (Sennheiser Ambeo for the Ambisonic signal, Neumann KU100 as 
the reference) and the dataset of Zhu et al. (real-head recordings). The 
test is a follow-up to our AES AVARIG 2026 paper 
(https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=23351), and the results 
will go into a journal paper that I am writing with my colleague Szymon 
Zaporowski.

The test takes about half an hour and is best done in one go, because 
progress is not saved. You need a laptop or desktop computer (not a 
phone), ideally with Chrome, wired or good wireless headphones (please 
switch off spatial audio and head tracking), and a quiet place. It 
starts with a short headphone check (left/right and an antiphase 
screening after Woods et al. 2017) and two training pages, and it is 
anonymous: no name or email address is collected.

Link: https://listening.bmroz.eu/

The test is open until 20 November. Please feel free to forward it to 
anyone who may be interested. Thank you!

Best regards,
Bartłomiej Mróz
Dept. of Multimedia Systems, Gdańsk University of Technology
bmroz.eu