The audience has an effect on acoustics too- the heads of people are good diffusers of sound- and architects try to account for this effect in their design, but they can't guarantee a full auditorium!
Sabine recognized this and he came up with an equation to measure a room's reverberation time.
He provided support for using established architectural principles in the design of concert halls.
but it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that architectural acoustics became a scientific field. That was when the physicist Wallace Sabine started to do extensive studies on reverberation.逻辑