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RT60 Reverberation Time

RT60 (reverberation time) is the duration required for sound energy in a room to decay by 60 decibels after the source stops. Pioneered by Wallace Clement Sabine in 1900, RT60 is the most widely used single-number descriptor of room acoustic properties. It reflects how much sound is absorbed versus reflected by room surfaces and directly affects speech intelligibility, music clarity, and acoustic comfort.

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RT60 Reverberation Time Measurement and Analysis
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / acoustics
  • Sabine, W. C. (1900). Collected Papers on Acoustics. Dover Publications. · URL
  • Schroeder, M. R. (1965). New method of measuring reverberation time. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 37(6), 409–412. · DOI 10.1121/1.1909343
  • Eyring, C. F. (1930). Reverberation time in dead rooms. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1(2), 217–241. · DOI 10.1121/1.1915175
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Same method familyAcoustic Ray Tracingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyBEM Acousticsmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPsychoacoustic Maskingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRoom Impulse Responsemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySpeech Intelligibilitymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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