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Literature Reviews, Research Insights & Evidence-Based Design Frameworks

Explore literature reviews, research insights, and evidence-based design frameworks.

Discover how acoustics, lighting, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, passive design, and smart building technologies work together bridging building physics, environmental psychology, and sustainable design—to create healthier, more comfortable, and higher-performing environments for people.


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Acousticians & Audio Engineers on Sound Performance in a Room

What ACOUSTICIANS and AUDIO ENGINEERS said about RELATIONSHIP between ROOM DESIGN and AUDIO PERFORMANCE?

Produce or listening music with a realistic sound performance is a dream of every musicians, sound engineers and music or audio lover.

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Although it has been traditional to consider the loudspeaker and room as separate entities, this approach is no longer justified. The loudspeakers, room and listener comprise a system within which the sounds and spatial illusions of stereo are decoded, and they must be considered together.
— Floyd E. Toole Ph.D. - Harman International, 2006
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Jan Abildgaard Pedersen, 1994

Bang & Olufsen, DynAudio

Increasing the reverberation time tends to decrease the position sensitivity, especially at higher frequencies. This is, as expected, due to the fact that the sound field becomes more diffuse when the reverberation time increases. The sound pressure amplitude does not depend on the position in a perfectly diffuse sound field.

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David Griesinger, 1998

Lexicon

In rooms where low-frequency envelopment is perceptible, low-frequency instruments in classical music are often perceived as external, while Iow-frequencies in popular music are often "in the head". Low-frequency instruments in popular music, such as the kick drum and the bass guitar, are almost always perceived as coming from inside the head.

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Avis, Fazenda, Davies, 2007 Salford University

Given the suggestion that the high-frequency reverberation time may help “mask” low-frequency problems.

Remember, dollar for dollar the acoustical treatment of your room will make more of an audible difference than any piece of electronic hardware, speaker, or cable.
— Peter D’Antonio - RPG Acoustic, 2004

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