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Dynamic Scales

CHAPTER OUTLINE

General Rules for Good Acoustics

Schroeder Frequency

Reverberation Time

Calculating the Reverberation Time

Porous Absorbers

Resonance Absorbers

Membrane Absorbers

Sound Distribution

Background Noise

Echoes and Flutter Echoes

Early Reflections

Early Reflections In A Small Room

Early Reflections in the Large Room

Large Room Parameters

Reverberation Radius and Critical Distance

Clarity, C₈₀, C₅₀, C₇

Room acoustics measures provide information about how sound behaves inside a room; how the sound is distributed and the influence of size, shape, surface materials, etc. Many of the measures are related to the way we perceive and assess the sound as listeners, ...

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