Reverberation enhances music perception and is one of the most important acoustic factors in auditorium design. However, previous research on reverberant music perception has focused on young normal-hearing (YNH) listeners. Old hearing-impaired (OHI) listeners have degraded spatial auditory processing; therefore, they may perceive reverberant music differently. Two experiments were conducted ex...

This paper presents a method, which is able to give a blind estimation of the reverberation time of an enclosed space, using only the signal from two or more spatially distributed receivers, for example a binaural signal. There is no need for a controlled or known excitation signal, and there are no special requirements for the excitation signal. The method works with any kind of acoustic sourc...

The quality of the communication between teachers and students and ultimately, of classroom education itself, is closely linked to the acoustic quality of the auditorium. This acoustic quality can be characterized based on the reverberation time (RT), speech transmission index (STI) and the sound insulation. In this context, an acoustic study was conducted in an auditorium located in the Higher...