<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article presents modified global assessment indices, developed in previous studies, for measuring the acoustic quality of Roman Catholic churches: the four-parameter Gap index and the Gi index based on five acoustic parameters. The replacement of <italic>RASTI</italic>, previously used in the acoustic assessment of churches, with <italic>STI</italic> has broadened the scope of church assessment and contributed to an improvement in the accuracy of the proposed method. Verification of new calculation procedures was performed on the 12 churches included in the calculation model and, additionally, on another church.</p></abstract>

The article presents modified global assessment indices, developed in previous studies, for measuring the acoustic quality of Roman Catholic churches: the four-parameter Gap index and the Gi index based on five acoustic parameters. The replacement of RASTI, previously used in the acoustic assessment of churches, with STI has broadened the scope of church assessment and contributed to an improvement in the accuracy of the proposed method. Verification of new calculation procedures was performed on the 12 churches included in the calculation model and, additionally, on another church.

A Comparative Analysis of the Index Assessment of Church Acoustics using RASTI and STI

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The article presents modified global assessment indices, developed in previous studies, for measuring the acoustic quality of Roman Catholic churches: the...

A Comparative Analysis of the Index Assessment of Church Acoustics using RASTI and STI

Published Online: May 26, 2020

Page range: 5 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.17.099.6575

Keywords
church acoustics, index method, acoustic quality

© 2020 Krzysztof Kosała, published by Sciendo

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A Comparative Analysis of the Index Assessment of Church Acoustics using RASTI and STI

Published Online: May 26, 2020

Page range: 5 - 19

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/2353737XCT.17.099.6575

Keywordschurch acoustics, index method, acoustic quality

© 2020 Krzysztof Kosała, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Public License.

Keywords
church acoustics, index method, acoustic quality