N2 - In virtual acoustics or artificial reverberation, impulse responses can be split so that direct and reflected components of the sound field are reproduced via separate loudspeakers. The authors had investigated the perceptual effect of angular separation of those components in commonly used 5.0 and 7.0 multichannel systems, with one and three sound sources respectively (Kleczkowski et al., 2015, J. Audio Eng. Soc. 63, 428-443). In that work, each of the front channels of the 7.0 system was fed with only one sound source. In this work a similar experiment is reported, but with phantom sound sources between the front loud- speakers. The perceptual advantage of separation was found to be more consistent than in the condition of discrete sound sources. The results were analysed both for pooled listeners and in three groups, according to experience. The advantage of separation was the highest in the group of experienced listeners. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101418/PDF/13_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101418 PY - 2015 IS - No 4 EP - 584 DO - 10.1515/aoa-2015-0057 KW - spatial audio KW - multichannel sound reproduction KW - phantom sources KW - auralization KW - ambisonics abbreviations KW - IR KW - impulse response KW - SIR KW - spatial impulse response KW - RT KW - reverberation time KW - ANOVA KW - analysis of variance KW - DS - direct sound KW - RSs - reflected sounds A1 - Kleczkowski, Piotr A1 - Król, Aleksandra A1 - Małecki, Paweł PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 40 DA - 2015[2015.01.01 AD - 2015.12.31 AD] T1 - Reproduction of Phantom Sources Improves with Separation of Direct and Reflected Sounds SP - 575 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101418 T2 - Archives of Acoustics