Home listening rooms show RT of 0.2–0.4 seconds with no diffuse field

Evidence

In contrast, typical reverberation times for domestic listening rooms and recording control rooms are typically in the range 0.2 to 0.4 seconds. These 342. spaces have a lot of absorption and large scattering objects (furniture and equipment) relative to their size, so a classic, relatively diffuse, reverberant sound field does not exist. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 1233

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key contrast: domestic rooms lack a diffuse reverberant field, so RT measures something else entirely there.