Subjective and objective evaluations of a scattered sound field in a scale model opera house

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1538-1549

  Ryu, Jong Kwan ^a   Jeon, Jin Yong ^a  

^a Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ACOUSTIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTICS; ARCHITECTURAL ACOUSTICS; DIFFUSERS (FLUID); ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; OPERA HOUSES; REVERBERATION;

ACOUSTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; DOMINANT PARAMETERS; EARLY DECAY TIME; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; INITIAL TIME DELAY GAP; REFLECTED SOUND; REVERBERATION TIME; SCALE MODELING; SCATTERED SOUND FIELDS; SCATTERING AND ABSORPTION; SOUND FIELDS; SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SUBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS; SUBJECTIVE PREFERENCE;

ACOUSTIC FIELDS;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; LOUDNESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE;

ACOUSTICS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSIC; PRESSURE; SOUND; SOUND LOCALIZATION; TIME FACTORS; VIBRATION;

EID: 52449100857     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2956474     Document Type: Article

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