Concert hall acoustics was evaluated with a descriptive sensory analysis method by employing an individual vocabulary development technique. The goal was to obtain sensory profiles of three concert halls by eliciting perceptual attributes for evaluation and comparison of the halls. The stimuli were gathered by playing back anechoic symphony music from 34 loudspeakers on stage in each concert hall and recording the sound field with a microphone array. Four musical programs were processed for multichannel 3D sound reproduction in the actual listening test. Twenty screened assessors developed their individual set of attributes and performed a comparative evaluation of nine seats, three in each hall. The results contain the distinctive groups of elicited attributes and show good agreement within assessors, even though they applied individual attributes when rating the samples. It was also found that loudness and distance gave the strongest perceptual direction to the principal component basis. In addition, the study revealed that the perception of reverberance is related to the size of the space or to the enveloping reverberance, depending on the assessor.
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August 01 2011
Concert hall acoustics assessment with individually elicited attributes
Tapio Lokki;
Tapio Lokki
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Aalto University School of Science
, Department of Media Technology, P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Jukka Pätynen;
Jukka Pätynen
Aalto University School of Science
, Department of Media Technology, P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Antti Kuusinen;
Antti Kuusinen
Aalto University School of Science
, Department of Media Technology, P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Heikki Vertanen;
Heikki Vertanen
Aalto University School of Science
, Department of Media Technology, P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Sakari Tervo
Sakari Tervo
Aalto University School of Science
, Department of Media Technology, P.O. Box 15400, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Electronic mail: tapio.lokki@aalto.fi
J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 130, 835–849 (2011)
Article history
Received:
April 09 2010
Accepted:
June 14 2011
Citation
Tapio Lokki, Jukka Pätynen, Antti Kuusinen, Heikki Vertanen, Sakari Tervo; Concert hall acoustics assessment with individually elicited attributes. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 August 2011; 130 (2): 835–849. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3607422
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