ABSTRACT
Dead room: A room in which the total absorbing area approaches the actual room surface
area. Note that such a room cannot qualify as ‘live’; compare live room.
Live room: A room in which the amount of sound absorption is small enough that the mean
free path LAV is greater than ffiffiffiffi A
p , where A is the room absorption. (For ‘mean free path’ see
Section 4.4.1.)
Room absorption: A measure of the equivalent absorption area of a room e units, m2.
