{"id":1246,"date":"2009-03-30T11:27:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2009-03-30T11:27:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T16:27:05","slug":"sound-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1246","title":{"rendered":"Sound test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hammer-blow.jpg' title='hammer-blow.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/hammer-blow.jpg' alt='hammer-blow.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Hammer blow: about three-quarters of a second of reverberation<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whistling-upstairs.jpg' title='whistling-upstairs.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whistling-upstairs.jpg' alt='whistling-upstairs.jpg' \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Whistling test<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The drywaller finished this morning. As soon as he was gone, I took the iMac down to the house and, using the Audacity recording program, did some quick acoustic tests. A hammer blow gives about three-quarters of a second of reverberation &#8212; not bad.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I would have chosen this house plan for the looks and layout alone. But I quickly noticed the house&#8217;s acoustic possibilities, with its high ceilings, long lines of sight, and many planes for reflecting and breaking up the sound. The organ &#8212; or any musical instruments, for that matter &#8212; should sound really good in this house. However, I would not want to live in a house this acoustically live with four children, eight television sets, and three barking dogs.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a whistling test with my out-of-tune whistling. The computer (using the built-in microphone) is downstairs in the living room. I am upstairs in the radio room balcony, facing the top of the living room, about 16 feet from the microphone.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/whisting-1.mp3' title='whisting-1.mp3'>whisting-1.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hammer blow: about three-quarters of a second of reverberation Whistling test The drywaller finished this morning. As soon as he was gone, I took the iMac down to the house and, using the Audacity recording program, did some quick acoustic tests. A hammer blow gives about three-quarters of a second of reverberation &#8212; not bad. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=1246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sound test&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}