N2 - In recent years we have interviewed members of the audience after musical performances and asked them to evaluate the acoustics of the concert halls. A group of ‘music lovers’ (with a high level of musical training and experience) and ‘acousticians’ (with a wide knowledge of the physical characteristics of sound transmission) also attended each performance and answered the same questions as the general public. This group thereby served as a control group when evaluating surveys of the general public. In this paper, the results obtained when analyzing these control group surveys are presented. This analysis shows that a common vocabulary exists between music lovers and acousticians when rating a hall, although the grouping of the questions for each factor depends on the training of the respondents. L1 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101606/PDF/10_paper.pdf L2 - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/101606 PY - 2012 IS - No 3 EP - 340 DO - 10.2478/v10168-012-0042-3 KW - room acoustics KW - subjective evaluation. A1 - Giménez, Alicia A1 - Cibrián, Rosa María A1 - Cerdá, Salvador PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 37 DA - 2012 T1 - Subjective Assessment of Concert Halls: a Common Vocabulary for Music Lovers and Acousticians SP - 331 UR - http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/101606 T2 - Archives of Acoustics