translate English to German: The “Sphere“ microphone was developed so that similarly convincing results could be achieved for loudspeaker playback. To fulfill this objective the microphone must provide not only interaural arrival-time cues, but also spectral-vs-angular incidence information.
Es sollten da­her nicht nur die inter-auralen Lauf­zeit­unter­schiede, son­dern auch der vom Einfalls­winkel abhän­gige Fre­quenzgang nach­gebildet werden.