Fan-shaped halls sacrifice good lateral reflections for seating capacity and sightlines.
Evidence
Another popular structure, which has a different behavior as regards to lateral reflections, is the fan-shaped hall shown in Figure 6.26. This structure has the advantage of being able to seat more people with good sightlines but unfortunately it directs the lateral reflections away from the audience and those few that do arrive are very weak at the wider part of the fan. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1970
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Fan-shaped halls sacrifice lateral reflections for seating capacity (similarity 0.93)
- Fan-shaped halls discourage early side reflections and tend to fail acoustically (similarity 0.92)
- Rectangular shoebox halls naturally produce abundant lateral reflections prized for sound quality. (similarity 0.82)
- Shoebox-shaped concert halls naturally produce abundant lateral reflections (similarity 0.82)
- Fan-shaped concert halls discourage early side reflections and tend to fail acoustically. (similarity 0.81)
- Lateral early reflections arriving within 20 ms create perceived spaciousness (similarity 0.79)