Determination of acoustic center correction values for type LS2aP microphones at normal incidence

Published

July 1, 1998

Author(s)

Randall Wagner, Victor Nedzelnitsky

Abstract

Frequency-dependent acoustic center correction values are required to obtain accurate microphone calibrations in the free-field by the reciprocity technique. These values were determined for IEC type LS2aP microphones at normal incidence by utilizing the theoretical inverse relationship between the sound pressure amplitude at the acoustic center of a receiver and the distance between acoustic centers of source and receiver. A dynamic signal analyzer was used to measure the gain factor between the amplified output voltage of the receiver and the source input voltage at 500-Hz intervals in the extended frequency range 2-50 kHz. This procedure allowed all the data for a microphone pair to be gathered within several hours for microphone diaphragm separations from 101-311 mm at lo-mm intervals. At each frequency, the reciprocal of this gain factor as a function of microphone diaphragm separation was fit to a straight line after correction for atmospheric effects, including attenuation of sound caused by atmospheric absorption. Mean acoustic center correction values (from four microphones combined in six pairs) were calculated using the parameters obtained from the fit and found to be in good agreement with published values calculated by the boundary element method, as well as with values predicted by scaling published values of the acoustic center correction for microphones with a geometrical configuration similar to that of IEC type LSlP microphones.

Citation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volume

104 (1)

Pub Type

Journals

Keywords

acoustic center, Acoustics, microphone

Citation

Wagner, R. and Nedzelnitsky, V. (1998), Determination of acoustic center correction values for type LS2aP microphones at normal incidence, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (Accessed July 13, 2025)