Abstract
Already in the 1950s difficult problems in acoustics were being successfully attacked by computer simulation. One of the first digital simulations of a signal processor was that of an artificial reverberator to produce natural‐sounding reverberation. Other early applications of computers used Monte‐Carlo simulations to study random wave interference in enclosures. Later, computers were used extensively in the measurements in Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) in New York City. This work also led to the development of new methods for measuring reverberation time. In the 1970s, with the support of the German Science Foundation, a large number of concert halls were investigated with the help of sound field reproduction and multidimensional scaling methods using digital computers. The most important new parameter emerging from these studies was “interaural dissimilarity.” The diffusely reflecting surfaces called for by these results are based on number‐theoretic principles [M. R. Schroeder, Number Theo...
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