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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Acoustics and Vibration Volume 2008, Article ID 869130, 9 pages doi:10.1155/2008/869130 Research Article Integration of Bass Enhancement and Active Noise Control System in Automobile Cabin Liang Wang,1 Woon Seng Gan,1 and Sen M. Kuo2 1 School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Liang Wang, wang0136@.sg Received 29 December 2007; Accepted 5 March 2008 Recommended by Marek Pawelczyk With the advancement of digital signal processing technologies, consumers are more concerned with the quality of multimedia entertainment in automobiles. In order to meet this demand, an audio enhancement system is needed to improve bass reproduction and cancel engine noise in the cabins. This paper presents an integrated active noise control system that is based on frequency-sampling filters to track and extract the bass information from the audio signal, and a multifrequency active noise equalizer to tune the low-frequency engine harmonics to enhance the bass reproduction. In the noise cancellation mode, a maximum of 3 dB bass enhancement can be achieved with significant noise suppression, while higher bass enhancement can be achieved in the bass enhance mode. The results show that the proposed system is effective for solving both the bass audio reproduction and the noise control problems in automobile cabins. Copyright © 2008 Liang Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and repro