160074 VO Basics and Applications of Room Acoustics and Electroacoustic Sound Reinforcement Technology (2023W)

No large auditorium, no open-air concert and no room for contemporary light music is used without sound reinforcement systems, but the quality of the sound reinforcement is often more than poor.
The often unsatisfactory result is commonly referred to as "poor acoustics" - although, due to revolutionary new developments in the field of loudspeaker technology in the 1990s, a comprehensible sound reinforcement is usually possible in principle in conjunction with suitable room acoustic knowledge and measures.
In this course, an introduction to the basics of room acoustics and intelligible sound reinforcement for speech and music will be given.
Based upon a basic introduction to the laws of room acoustics and their application for sound reinforcement purposes and the psychophysical principles relevant to intelligibility, requirements for room acoustics measures and sound reinforcement technology are derived in order to enable intelligible sound reinforcement even under adverse room acoustics conditions, which are a prerequisite for successful transmission of the acoustic signal and is thus often closely linked to the economic success of events or the interpretation intentions of artists using electroacoustic sound reinforcement.
The course is intended to qualify the participants so that poor room acoustics and sound reinforcement solutions are not taken for granted, but become a basic competence to assess the quality of sound reinforcement solutions possible under given boundary conditions and room acoustic conditions appropriate for the use.