Spaciousness and Envelopment in Musical Acoustics
@article{Griesinger1996SpaciousnessAE, title={Spaciousness and Envelopment in Musical Acoustics}, author={David Griesinger}, journal={Journal of The Audio Engineering Society}, year={1996} }
Conventional wisdom holds that spaciousness and envelopment are caused by lateral sound energy in rooms, and that it is the early arriving lateral energy which is most responsible. However small rooms often have many early lateral reflections, but by common definition small rooms are not spacious. This paper (briefly) describes a series of experiments into the perception of spaciousness and envelopment. The perceptions are found to be related most commonly to the lateral (diffuse) energy in…
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