Reverberation time spans from 0.2 seconds to 10 seconds across rooms

Evidence

Bigger spaces tend to have longer reverberation times and well-furnished spaces tend to have shorter reverberation times. Reverberation time can vary from about 0.2 of a second for a small well-furnished living room to about 10 seconds for a large glass and stone cathedral. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1784

As discussed in Chapter 6 (see Section 6.1.12), bigger spaces tend to have longer reverberation times, and well-furnished spaces tend to have shorter reverberation times. Reverberation time can vary from about 0.2 of a second for a small, wellfurnished living room to about 10 seconds for a large glass-and-stone cathedral. — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2446

Categorization

• CANDY: Nice concrete range for casual conversation about how spaces sound different.
• SHARE: Architecturally minded friends would enjoy the living-room-to-cathedral order-of-magnitude spread.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 1784; David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 2446
• XREF: connects to: Recommendable reverberation times range from 2 seconds down to 0.35 seconds by room type; Concert hall reverberation times range from one to two seconds; Reverberation times range from fractions of a second to ten seconds — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1744