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acoustics and concert halls  

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  • When sound travels from a source to a listener in a room, the environment will shape the sound considerably, mainly through the reflections from boundaries. There are a number of qualities of received sound, and each is linked to the characteristics of sound reflections in certain ways. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Acoustics and Concert Halls]

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