title: Concert hall acoustics assessment with individually elicited attributes.
abstract: Concert hall acoustics was evaluated with a descriptive sensory analysis method by employing an individual vocabulary development technique. The goal was to obtain sensory profiles of three concert halls by eliciting perceptual attributes for evaluation and comparison of the halls. The stimuli were gathered by playing back anechoic symphony music from 34 loudspeakers on stage in each concert hall and recording the sound field with a microphone array. Four musical programs were processed for multichannel 3D sound reproduction in the actual listening test. Twenty screened assessors developed their individual set of attributes and performed a comparative evaluation of nine seats, three in each hall. The results contain the distinctive groups of elicited attributes and show good agreement within assessors, even though they applied individual attributes when rating the samples. It was also found that loudness and distance gave the strongest perceptual direction to the principal component basis. In addition, the study revealed that the perception of reverberance is related to the size of the space or to the enveloping reverberance, depending on the assessor.
authors: Aalto University School of Science, Department of Media Technology, Aalto, Finland. tapio.lokki@aalto.fi
authors: Tapio
authors: T
authors: Lokki
authors: Jukka
authors: J
authors: Patynen
authors: Antti
authors: A
authors: Kuusinen
authors: Heikki
authors: H
authors: Vertanen
authors: Sakari
authors: S
authors: Tervo
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000162:Acoustics / Q000295:instrumentation; D001306:Auditory Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception; D001309:Auditory Threshold; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D008144:Loudness Perception; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009038:Motion; D009146:Music; D025341:Principal Component Analysis; D013016:Sound; D013017:Sound Localization; D014159:Transducers; D014732:Vibration; D018875:Vocabulary, Controlled