A new, compact, single instrument for the measurement of reverberation time, the time conducted for a diffuse sound field to decay 60 dB (T/60), is presented. Tests were conducted to determine the instrument's performance in a reverberant room using both random noise and pistol-shot sound sources and in a large concert hall using a pistol-shot sound source. Results compared favorably with simultaneous measurements using a conventional measurement technique and agreed with those obtained by previous workers.

Authors: Livingstone, C. E.; Base, Terry E.; Hawtin, Al F.
Affiliation: University of Weslern Ontario, Faculty of Engineering Science, London, Ontario, Canada
JAES Volume 30 Issue 9 pp. 614-620; September 1982
Publication Date: September 1, 1982

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