Room reflections partially fill the phantom-center spectral hole

Evidence

In normally reflective rooms, reflections arriving from other directions at different times will help to fill in the spectral hole because of the random acoustical interference associated with those sounds. Therefore, in normally reflective rooms this will not be as serious as the curve in Figure 4.4(d) suggests, a fact confirmed by data from Shirley et al. (2007) in the data shown in Figure 4.4(e). — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 423

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the anechoic/near-field scenario from the preceding paragraphs; a nice intra-chapter dialectic.