Small rooms in the acoustical sense, are the bottlenecks of classical room acoustics. There are practical guidelines for the design and evaluation of such rooms, but still no widely accepted objective numerical criteria and general design method are at hand. This paper presents a uniform evaluation and design approach, based on conventional measurement and computer aided modelling methods of impulse responses or energy decay curves.
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