---
title: "Auralization—An Overview"
authors: ["Mendel Kleiner", "Bengt-Inge Dalenbäck", "Peter Svensson"]
year: 1993
venue: "Journal of the Audio Engineering Society"
arxiv: null
doi: null
source: "https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=7019"
topics: [auralization, survey]
seed_rank: 1750
seed_batch: "audio-harvest-2026-09-09"
reviewed: "2026-09-09"
pool: "engines"
relevance_score: 9
lineage: artificial-reverberation
cites:
  - title: "Fundamentals of binaural technology"
    url: "https://doi.org/10.1016/0003-682x(92)90046-u"
    year: 1992
    arxiv: null
    doi: "10.1016/0003-682x(92)90046-u"
see:
  - "1682-fundamentals-of-binaural-technology"
  - "1673-an-analytic-secondary-source-model-of-edge-diffraction-impulse-responses"
---

# Auralization—An Overview

## One-sentence takeaway

Kleiner/Dalenbäck/Svensson 1993 JAES: 'Auralization — An Overview' — the word and the pipeline (RIR → convolution → ears).

## Why it matters here

Vocabulary card. Before you say auralization in Anoptic docs, this AES overview is the 1990s definition (CATT-adjacent Dalenbäck). Survey, not an algorithm. Harvest reverb/RIR coverage.

## Key ideas

- **Define auralization.** Model → IR → playback.
- **JAES 1993.** elib 7019; empty DOI in harvest.
- **Early practice.** Dummy heads, measured/simulated RIRs.
- **Svensson among authors** — later BTM 1999.

## Caveats

1993. No MagLS, no Triton, no SADIE. AES e-lib. Pedagogical.

## Links

- HTML: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=7019