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Sabine Formula
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The formal study of architectural acoustics is frequently traced to the late 19th century, though observations regarding room sound quality are ancient. A pivotal moment is attributed to Wallace Clement Sabine at Harvard University, whose meticulous early studies in the 1890s sought to quantify the reverberation time ($T_{60}$) of lecture halls. Sabine formalized the relationship between the volume ($V$…