Rating Scales for Auditorium Acoustics
B. G. Watters, Leo L. Beranek, Theodore John Schultz, R. Johnson, R. Lawrence Kirkegaard · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1970
Communication of scientific ideas is aided if the essential “dimensions” of the topic being discussed are first identified, and then quantified or scaled. This is as true for subjective as for objective dimensions. We report our most recent efforts to scale the more important subjective dimensions of the effect of the acoustic character of auditoria upon speech and music. Approximately a dozen dimensions have been found useful in communicating subjective evaluations of various halls. Examples are: brassiness, brilliance, and over-all loudness resulting in a hall for a standard speech or music source.