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How Does Architectural Acoustics Work? - Episode 316

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Acoustics - The History of Acoustics

Acoustics were first studied by the Greek philosopher Vitruvius. Theaters are all designed, hopefully, so that things bounce perfectly towards people to amplify. I'm going to actually get into a story of a $20 million mistake. So that'll be fun. And then diffusion, scattering or random distribution of sounds off the surface is probably less ideal in our situations.

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