The word "acoustics" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the properties of sound and its transmission. For example, "We wanted to create a room with good acoustics for recording music."
It was a worthy company, but nothing like the organisation that has just mounted a superb production of Die Meistersinger in its large theatre with first-rate acoustics which can accommodate their fine orchestra.
Neither would have been filled, but 10,000 people rattling around inside the 52,000-capacity Hampden – a ground at which acoustics are not great even when full – is a worrying prospect.
Only the dismal acoustics of Scotland's national stadium blunted the atmosphere.
(The LSO would rightly dispute that; nobody claims that the Barbican Hall is the finest of the world's acoustics - although it has, I think, real presence and power if you're sitting in a lucky seat - yet the LSO remains near the top of the world-orchestra-tree - a rather Wagnerian locution I might have to copyright).
Mariinsky II is a good thing.With its 2,000 seats and carefully engineered acoustics, the theatre offers impressive technical flexibility.
The quality of the recording is wonderful: Neu Records are fanatical about acoustics and even offer pointers on their website on how to position speakers for maximum effect.Mr Vivancos's music is reminiscent of the early choral pieces of György Ligeti, the Hungarian composer, whose "Lux Aeterna" was memorably used in the film "2001: A space odyssey".
Finite-element analysis can determine its structural properties; with the right software, there is no reason why the building's energy consumption, lighting, heat flow, acoustics and regulatory compliance cannot all be calculated too, suggests Dr Eastman.
More recent acoustical measurements and architectural drawings of the Colón do exist and are consistent with our understanding of what makes good acoustics for opera.
At the time I was struck by its mall-like similiarities: low ceilings; acoustics that seemed to amplify the screams of small children; long walks between flights with few moving travelators to aid the footsore; endless chain restaurants.
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Listeners have long complained about the drab acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall, the Philharmonic's permanent home.
