Impression measurement of three different types of loudspeakers´ sound field

Recently, some new implementations of panel form loudspeakers were proposed. Some of them have quite different radiation characteristics compared with dynamic loudspeakers. Especially Distributed Mode Loudspeaker (DML) has diffused property of radiation. But the subjective impression of this property was needed to investigate. In this paper, 39 adjective and adjective phrases were selected for impression measurement. Two of dynamic loudspeaker models, a DML and an electrostatic loudspeaker were used for this impression measurement. As a result of median test, DML gave the impression of wider sound fields, spatial sense, depth sense and blurred sound fields.