Quotes About Acoustics

I became fascinated with this phenomenon of hearing loud voices at a distance and trying to account how I knew they were loud when I can barely hear them. Something about their shapes or their shapelessness or the way they filter through the walls.

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

From my earliest childhood, my attention was specially directed to the subject of acoustics, and specially to the subject of speech, and I was urged by my father to study everything relating to these subjects, as they would have an important bearing upon what was to be my professional work.

One sense that does do better underwater is sound. It travels about four times faster than in air. More

Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

I think it is going to be great to be in a building where you can literally hear the quarterback calling signals.

If you need to record live instruments, especially drums, it's still best to do it in a studio.

In many acoustical applications, sound is considered as falling in eight octave bands, with center frequencies of 63; 125; 250; 500; 1,000; 2,000; 4,000; and 8,000 Hz. In some cases, sound is considered in terms of 1/3-octave bands, with center frequencies falling at 31.5; 50; 63; 80; 100; 125; 160; 200; 250; 315; 400; 500; 630; 800; 1,000; 1,250; 1,600; 2,000; 2,500; 3,150; 4,000; 5,000; 6,300; 8,000; and 10,000 Hz.

Viennese physicist Ernst Mach, for whom is named the speed of sound

When I want to DJ what I think to be the best-sounding place in the world, I go to this place in Sapporo, Japan, called Precious Hall, which has kind of a custom sound system with a much lower ceiling and a smaller room.

Avidum genus auricularum.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. -Isaac Stern

You can buy $20,000 speakers, but put them in a room that's not right, and it sounds terrible. If you buy $20 speakers and put them in a room that's tuned right, it'll sound great.

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

I'm into sounds, man.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Stradivarius, in particular, was the most amazing craftsman and one of the great artists and scientists that ever lived because he figured out something with the sound and the science of acoustics that we still don't understand it completely.

Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

You know, the ukulele itself is not a very loud instrument, all right? And, you know, compared to like a trumpet, right? A trumpet is really loud.

With real estate, it's location, location, location. In public speaking, it's acoustics, acoustics, acoustics.