Room acoustics should incorporate psychoacoustic not merely physical metrics

Evidence

Room acoustics uses mostly physical values. However, room acoustics should also describe the conditions leading to good hearing in a room. Because hearing characteristics are described by psychoacoustical data and values, it seems reasonable to introduce these values into the description of room acoustics. This often means that temporal and spectral effects should be described using total loudness as a function of time, or the three-dimensional distribution of specific loudness versus critical-band rate pattern as a function of time. In addition to that, other psychoacoustical values such as fluctuation strength, partial masking or sharpness, can be used to describe the influence of room acoustics on the characteristics of the sound at the place of a listener. — Professor Dr.-Ing. Hugo Fastl, Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard, Psychoacoustics- Facts and Models, 2055

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the reading-purpose framing of psychoacoustics as linking physical stimuli to perception, and connects to loudness-models chapters elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Physical sound measurement cannot capture the subjective semantic meaning of a sonic environment — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1159