Experimental Acoustic Evaluation of an Auditorium

Table 2

Recommended occupied reverberation times.

Type of music (speech)	Recommended RT (s)
Organ music	>2.5
Romantic classical music	1.8–2.2
Early classical music	1.6–1.8
Opera	1.3–1.8
Chamber music	1.4–1.7
Drama theatre	0.7–1.0