System and method for creating seat-based low frequency audio playback

An audio system providing at least one audio signal to be played back at an individual seat-based sound (ISS) system in a coherent listening environment having a plurality of ISS systems, each ISS system in the plurality of ISS systems has a single transducer arranged at a head of a listener, the system comprising:

• a plurality of listening modes for each ISS system in the plurality of ISS systems;
• a crosstalk canceling filter associated with an ISS system of interest in the plurality of ISS systems, the crosstalk canceling filter derived from an algorithm using impulse response measurements of the at least one audio signal, taken only in an acoustical domain, of a transfer function between the at least one audio signal directly after the single transducer in the ISS system of interest and the at least one audio signal at the head of the listener in the ISS system of interest;
• a user input interface for selecting one listening mode from the plurality of listening modes at the ISS system of interest, the user input interface for setting a set of playback preferences at the ISS system of interest;
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• a control unit applying the crosstalk canceling filter for the ISS system of interest and the selected listening mode to the at least one audio signal for playback at the single transducer in the ISS system of interest and canceling, at the ISS system of interest, the at least one audio signal from the other ISS systems in the plurality of ISS systems and reverberant reflections of the coherent listening environment.