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Catholic churches, sound-reinforcement systems and RASTI
António Pedro Oliveira de Carvalho; Margarida M. F. LencastreThis paper concentrates on the Rapid Speech Transmission Index (RASTI) values within churches and on their differences with the sound-reinforcement systems (SRS) off and on. The RASTI was measured in 31 unoccupied Portuguese Catholic churches built in the last 11 centuries. Four receiver locations were used in each church, with and without the use of the SRS from the altar area. The vast majority of churches te...
How does RASTI change with sound reinforcement systems in churches?
A. Carvalho; Margarida M. F. LencastreThe Rapid Speech Transmission Index (RASTI) was measured in 31 Catholic churches in Portugal built in the last 11 centuries. Four receiver locations were used in each church, with and without the use of sound reinforcement systems (SRS) from the altar area. The loudspeaker arrangement commonly present in the churches tested was the distributed line source system (but with no signal-delayed), which is the standa...