When this author studied acoustics in the 1960s, architectural acoustics including room-acoustics was almost exclusively dealt with from the point of view of physics. In Germany we were taught from the seminal works of Cremer [1] and Kuttruff [2], for instance. Psychoacoustics was not considered hard science but “subjective,” and thus not taken seriously.

Author: Blauert, Jens
Affiliation: Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Communication Acoustics, Bochum, Germany
JAES Volume 67 Issue 1/2 pp. 5-12; January 2019
Publication Date: January 31, 2019 Import into BibTeX
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17743/jaes.2018.0072

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