Contribution

When is the sky the limit. Multi-dimensional room acoustic analysis of auditoria: The height dimension of concert halls and opera houses

Authors

* Presenting author
Day / Time: 18.03.2025, 15:20-16:00
Room: Hall E, Poster Island B
Typ: Poster
Session: Room Acoustics (Poster Island B / Tuesday)
Information: The posters will be exhibited in Hall E north from Tuesday to Thursday, sorted by thematic context in the poster island indicated in the session title. The poster session at the specified time offers the opportunity to enter into discussion with the authors.
Abstract: In 2017, a new method for analysing the room acoustic properties of different room types, including concert halls, chamber music rooms and opera houses, was presented based on a multi-dimensional approach combined with fast visualisations of the parameter values in up to six dimensions, e.g. room volume, number of seats, width, reverberation time, clarity and strength. Over the past eight years, this method has been continuously developed and refined and the underlying database has been successively expanded to currently over 500 data sets. Combined with the ever-increasing capabilities of computer-based data analysis packages, interesting results have been obtained regarding the acoustic quality of rooms, particularly of rehearsal, concert and opera halls, by correlating the room acoustic parameters with subjective preference ratings, which are available for many of these halls. However, the dimension of room height has not been included in the analyses until now.Therefore, this contribution shall supplement and complete the findings with the results which can be derived by including the room height in the analysis of the room acoustic quality of concert halls and opera houses.