The current publication investigates how expectations about room acoustics influence the
perceived quality. In case of binaural playback, the listener is regularly forced into an
acoustically different environment compared to the actual listening room. The conflicting
room acoustics of the synthesized and the listening room result in the so-called room
divergence effect. Previous research showed that room divergence has a negative influence
on the quality feature externalization. In the current listening test, expectations of the …