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Boleh Do room volume affects sound?
YES
How?
The bigger the room, the
longer the reflection distance / time / decay.
Sound passing through air will experience high frequency air absorption more severe
than low frequency.
Try to remember the Sound Reflections Demo Video!!!
It is to be noted that sound looses energy more by reflecting / turning / bending than compared to travelling long distances.
For example, large halls have echo. In order for a sound to be classified as echo, it must be identical to the 1st arrival sound and late by more than 80ms with sufficiently large signal strength.
Assuming sound source from stage is 100dB SPL. After travelling 60 meters it would have lost 20Log(60) = 35.56 dB SPL
100 - 35.56 = left with 64.44 dB SPL
Sound travelling 60 meters = 60/347.3 = 0.172 seconds = 172 milliseconds
During this time 172 milliseconds, it only suffer lost of energy through reflection once. Where by most high frequency lost is through air humidity absorption.
In reality the strength of returning echo is a PRODUCT of room acoustics properties (please remember the video), where by some parts of the room acts like a mirror and concentrate the reflections energy.
In a small environment is completely different. Take a car for example, there are never any echo occurring. This is because once a sound is released it would reach the next reflecting surfaces very early and looses it's energy through bending etc.
Again assuming the reflection in a car can travel 60 meters and that from window to window is 1.5 meters. 60/1.5 = 40. During this time, it would have reflected 40 times more compared to the hall above. Therefore a small environment like car, house, regular rooms etc do not have echo as well as long reverberation time.
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