Labs and equipment

The EMT Group is part of the Institute of Media Technology and therefore has access to the Institute's equipment.

The Audio Technology Lab and equipment in the field of spatial audio are named separately below.

Audio Technology Lab

The lab is used for research and development of technologies in the field of spatial audio. It fulfills the acoustic requirements of the ITU-R BS.1116 standard. The following permanently installed infrastructure is located in the room (excerpt):

22.2 NHK loudspeaker setup with Geithain RL906 and 5.1 surround setup with Geithain RL901 Traverse system on the ceiling for free configuration of different speaker arrangements Motu AVB DA converter with 24 outputs Playback in the control room via RME AVB interface with a maximum of 128 channels Yamaha CXA5100 decoder Sony UHD/4k SRXD close projection on acoustically transparent screen or on HDR-optimized, non-acoustically transparent screen HDMI cabling for UHD with 4:4:4

Equipment

The following equipment is available for research and teaching (selection).

• Microphone array: Artificial head KEMAR, Motion-Tracked Binaural, Spatial Decomposition Method, Eigenmike
• Turntable
• Extra-aural headphones
• Head-mounted displays
• QualiSys Motion Tracking
• Microphones for individual applications
• Computing technology