In this paper, we present an experiment based on a method called Temporal-Check-All-That-Apply (TCATA). The experiment was carried out to study the temporal perception of various attributes of sound quality when sounds move around a stationary listener. The first goal of the experiment was to understand if we can capture any changes in the perceived characteristics of the sound that reflected the physical configurations of the sounds reproduced in the lab using loudspeakers. The second goal was to evaluate if the conditions of the experiment were appropriate for obtaining statistically significant results. From the results we concluded that TCATA is a suitable method to capture changes in the perception of various sound quality attributes over time, but we observed that dynamic physical characteristics are not necessarily represented as a dynamic perceptual characteristic in all cases. The main experimental variables analysed showed statistically significant effect on the results, and based on our findings, we propose recommendations for future investigations.
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