ABSTRACT
In concert halls, churches, and recording studios, they are the sounds reflected from more distant room boundaries,and it is those reflections that allow for a recording made in those spaces to partially simulate a large-space environment. In home listening room situations, they are the sounds that arrive at the listening position after being reflected from multiple room surfaces that are considerably closer to the listener than what we have in studios, concert halls, and churches. As a result, those small-room reflections are not delayed enough to do a proper simulation, and they therefore tell the listener that they are listening to a music ensemble recorded in a large room being played back in a smaller one.
