ArchitectureWeek - Puzzler Answer #281

Answers . 12 April 2006


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Created by Dave Guadagni

Solution to Last Week's Puzzler
Architecture Puzzler #281

Question

Here's the definition: "The length of time, in seconds, it takes sound to decay by 60 decibels." What's the term being defined?

Answer

The definition is for reverberation time. Controlling reverberation time is critical in lecture halls and performance spaces where speech intelligibility (shorter reverberation) or music enhancement (longer reverberation) is desired.

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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects

Inventor Thomas Edison, experimenter with sound.
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