The Secret of the Musikvereien and Other Shoebox Concert Halls

Abstract

In 2012 we made a European tour 18 measuring ten concert halls with the loudspeaker orchestra 12 . Here, we present the measured data in the time-frequency-space domain 13 of four concert halls on the seats that were used in the listening tests 8 (see Fig. 1). Data is averaged over 24 source positions. The purpose of the analysis is to describe typical acoustical conditions of shoebox and vineyard halls. The analysis shows clearly the differences across hall types are larger than in one hall across seats, except at balcony, where sound fields are more similar in all hall types.