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I know it's probably a silly question, but does it?
Interesting answer, thanks for the reply, I was thinking of sound like light, and how different colors reflect or absorb light, and was curious about sound. Thanks again.
That is, after all, the whole point of "colors". They reflect and absorb different frequencies of light, not sound.Interesting answer, thanks for the reply, I was thinking of sound like light, and how different colors reflect or absorb light, and was curious about sound. Thanks again.
Interesting answer, thanks for the reply, I was thinking of sound like light, and how different colors reflect or absorb light, and was curious about sound. Thanks again.
But color can have effect on temperature of room and that may change the acoustics. Or not? I would imagine that if you have say one wall black and one wall white, the temperature of air near the walls could be different and thus the speed of sound would be different. Not sure how the sound propagation would be affected though. I seriously doubt it would be anything measurable.
But color can have effect on temperature of room and that may change the acoustics. Or not? I would imagine that if you have say one wall black and one wall white, the temperature of air near the walls could be different and thus the speed of sound would be different. Not sure how the sound propagation would be affected though. I seriously doubt it would be anything measurable.
Hey I've had a flick down the responses, I didn't look too closely to be honest but it looks like a few people are not wrong but just slightly off the mark with this one!
Yes the colour of an object will affect your perception of the sound it creates, as people have mentioned above different material properties will affect its reflective properties etc.. however our perception is not objective and it has been shown in several psychoacoustic studies that, for example, red trains sound louder than blue trains, when objectively they are creating the same Sound Pressure Level.
Yeah I know, but given the question was basically does colour affect sound I thought it would be worth mentioning, because it does lol. I do appreciate that it was a little off the subject of purely objective room acoustics. Thought it was quite interesting though, worth knowing and at least slightly relevant :).
Ben.
You need to back up all of your claims with peer reviewed scientific studies.Hey I've had a flick down the responses, I didn't look too closely to be honest but it looks like a few people are not wrong but just slightly off the mark with this one!
Yes the colour of an object will affect your perception of the sound it creates, as people have mentioned above different material properties will affect its reflective properties etc.. however our perception is not objective and it has been shown in several psychoacoustic studies that, for example, red trains sound louder than blue trains, when objectively they are creating the same Sound Pressure Level.
Companies like Genelec have known for years that green loudspeakers sound "more natural" than black speakers and those gold plated jacks you plug into your guitar don't objectively do anything! Its all in the mind, don't underestimate your brains ability to lie to you lol.
We should not be surprised by this as perception has long been known to be subjective and influenced by our other senses. Other good sound/colour examples are removing the high frequency crunch sound (using headphones and DSP) from chewing crisps makes them taste different, people think because they don't crunch they are stale. And brown décor in restaurants makes you want to eat more.
Having said that I should add that in room acoustics wall colour, generally, is not an important objective acoustical factor and it is your perception of the sound that might change (depending on the mood evoked by the colour for example) so I guess technically the acoustics don't change but your subjective appreciation of the acoustics might. Hope I cleared that up.