The auditory system compensates for room acoustics to recover the original source signal

Evidence

Listeners are able, at least partially, to compenstate for the frequency response of the listening room; that is, our hearing tries to estimate the signal emitted by the sources without the effect of the room. Humans also have the ability to listen selectively to a certain direction in binaural listening. In multi-source situations, the sources are audible with a 0–8 dB lower level compared to monaural listening. — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1535

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the cocktail party effect and to psychoacoustic work on binaural unmasking of sources in reverberation. — connects to: Room acoustics act as a second system cascaded after the instrument — David M. Howard, Jamie Angus, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics, 1059
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ville Pulkki, Matti Karjalainen, Communication Acoustics- An…, 1535