The back row doesn't hear what the average says it should.
Auditoriums, lecture theatres, churches, concert and function halls: rooms big enough, and irregular enough, that a single room-average figure starts to hide more than it tells you. Echo predicts them today the same way it predicts any room. For the rooms where that stops being enough, that's exactly what Echo Pro is being built for.
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One average, many seats
A 1.9-second reverberation figure is a genuine average across the whole volume — accurate, and still not the same thing as knowing whether row M under the balcony overhang is the seat that actually loses the sermon, the soliloquy or the sales pitch.
Geometry does more of the work
A flat, roughly box-shaped office responds well to a statistical prediction. A raked hall, a dome, a balcony front, a splayed wall panel — irregular geometry changes where sound actually goes, not just how much of it there is, in a way a single figure can gloss over.
The stakes are higher per seat
Retreat a restaurant's finishes and the room gets quieter everywhere. Get a 400-seat hall wrong and the failure is concentrated exactly where the people who paid the most, or who matter most to the room's purpose, are sitting.
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Doors open
Six o'clock and the hall is calm. Everyone can hear everyone, and every corner is quiet.
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The room fills
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Everyone talks louder
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Fit the treatment
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Same evening, calmer
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Take the controls
Illustration: one fictional evening in a function hall, played as a time-lapse. Guests arrive and the floor fills. As people raise their voices, an amber late-echo builds under the ceiling and the quiet corners disappear. Acoustic clouds, baffles and wall panels are fitted, the evening replays with the same crowd, the model predicts a lower level and the quiet corners return. Times and levels are illustrative.
What works today, and what's being built
Echo and Echo Studio already predict reverberation and speech clarity for a venue of any size, using the same statistical method as every other room on this site — a real, useful answer today, not a placeholder for Pro. Echo Pro adds a second engine on top: ray-tracing, seat by seat, for the specific cases where the average genuinely isn't the whole story. Ordering opens soon, once our professional indemnity insurance is in place.
See how Echo Pro works →Start with the figure that already exists
Free to check. Pro's seat-by-seat engine is the deeper option for a large or irregular space. Ordering opens soon, once our professional indemnity insurance is in place.
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