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Design and implementation of a flexible and low-budget acoustic treatment for a reference listening room

Authors: Kleczkowski, Piotr; Czesak, Karol; Kmiecik, Michal; Król Nowak, Aleksandra; Makuch, Teresa

AES Convention 152 · Paper 10597 · May 2022

Abstract

Audio reproduction quality depends on system qualities as well as on acoustic properties of the room, which can be controlled by appropriate acoustic treatment. The goal of our project was to adapt a 9 x 6 x 3 m shoe box shaped room, not initially intended for audio purposes, so that it could be used as a reference listening room in a range of applications requiring various acoustic conditions from live to dead. The treatment was based on the extensive use of wideband porous absorbers. Initially the room was too reverberant for audio purposes and produced intolerable flutter echo. Finally, we obtained reverberation time of 0.45 s in 63 Hz third octave band and a nearly flat reverberation time curve above 125 Hz, at the value of 0.2 s.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 152
AES Convention
152
Paper number
10597
Publication date
May 6, 2022
Session subject
Room Acoustics
Affiliation
AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland (See document for exact affiliation information.)
Type
Convention Paper