Table 1

Overview of the rendering methods. The first column specifies the label used in this paper, the second column the rendering method, and in case of HOA also the decoder type. The column “Per.” indicates whether the rendering method was using periphonic or horizontal reproduction. This column is followed by the number of loudspeakers N, and an indication if the method was applied in the localization experiment (“Loc”), in the minimum audible angle experiment (“MAA”), and in the perceptual quality rating (“Rating”). An “X” indicates that the rendering method was used in the respective experiment, “(X)” indicates that data was taken from a previous study [37].

Label	Method/decoder	Per.	N	Loc	MAA	Rating
minimal	Single channel		1			X
hoa2d	HOA/$\mathrm{ma}{\mathrm{x}}_{{\mathbf{r}}_E}$		16	X	(X)	X
hoa2d_basic	HOA/basic		16	X	(X)	X
hoa29_pinv	HOA/$\mathrm{ma}{\mathrm{x}}_{{\mathbf{r}}_E}$, pseudo-inv	X	29	X	(X)	X
hoa29_allrad	HOA/$\mathrm{ma}{\mathrm{x}}_{{\mathbf{r}}_E}$, AllRAD	X	29	X	(X)	X
nsp45	NSP	X	45	X		X
hoa45_allrad	HOA/$\mathrm{ma}{\mathrm{x}}_{{\mathbf{r}}_E}$, AllRAD	X	45	X	X	X
vbap45	VBAP	X	45	X	X	X