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Nonexponential sound decay in concert halls

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The paper presents acoustic measurement results for two concert halls in which nonexponential sound decay is observed. Quantitative estimates are given for how the obtained decay laws differ from exponential. Problems are discussed that arise when using reverberation time to assess the quality of room acoustics with nonexponential sound decay.

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Original Russian Text © N.G. Kanev, 2016, published in Akusticheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 106–110.

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Kanev, N.G. Nonexponential sound decay in concert halls. Acoust. Phys. 62, 108–111 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063771015060056

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