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What is room acoustics?
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General Principles
Sound shadows:
– ABSORPTION or obstruction of a SOUND WAVE by an object in its path.
Distortion
Sound concentrations
– caused by focused reflections off concave surfaces
– intensity of the sound at the focus point is unnaturally high
and always occurs at the expense of other listening areas.
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Geometric Acoustics
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Sound Path in a Room
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Reverberation
0.16V
Sabine Formula: RT =
A