THE ACOUSTICAL QUALITY OF HALLS——A COMPARISON OF SIMULATION TO EXPERIMENT

The acoustical quality of an ordinary hall,namely the reverberation time and the spatial nonuni-formity of sound pressure level in audience area,was simulated on a microcomputer.Comparisonbetween calculation,measurement and simulation of reverberation time shows that the reverberationtime from simulation is closer to measurement than from calculation,if the absorption of the audience isproperly chosen,in the frequency range from l25 to 4000 Hz;the average deviation is less than 10%.For the spatial nonuniformity of sound pressure level,there is a good correspondency botween thesimulation and the measurement.In addition,some details in simulation were discussed.