Desirable room acoustics can be encoded and delivered digitally rather than built

Evidence

As it stands, only the people in that control room will 390. ever have the experience. Building more elaborate physical structures is not the future. The challenge is to discover what it is that causes the desirable perceptions and find ways to deliver an approximation of it through the multichannel audio system they are listening to. Then the experience can be shared. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1433

Categorization

• SEED: A possible article angle: ‘capturing’ acoustically excellent rooms as signal-processing recipes rather than physical constructions.