# The Science of Listening: Psychoacoustics & Immersive Audio Explained" (Part One).

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Podcast: [Production Expert Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/production-expert-podcast-43553)
Published: 2026-01-07T15:00:00+00:00
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For 25 years, Professor Hyunkook Lee has been researching surround sound and immersive audio. Since 2010, his focus has been on height perception—specifically, how we perceive and localize sounds coming from above. His discoveries have fundamentally changed how we approach immersive mixing. One critical finding: time differences don't work in the vertical domain the way they do in stereo. Instead, height perception relies almost entirely on spectral cues and the pitch-height effect, where hig...

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