The acoustics of a concert hall as a linear problem

Aalto University School of Science – Dept. of Computer Science – POBox 15500, FI–00076 Aalto, Finland

Abstract

The main purpose of a concert hall is to convey sound from musicians to listeners and to reverberate the music for more pleasant experience in the audience area. This process is linear and can be represented with impulse responses. However, by studying measured and simulated impulse responses for decades, researchers have not been able to exhaustively explain the success and reputation of certain concert halls.