The acoustics of the concert hall Auditorio Juan Victoria from San Juan, Argentina

The Auditorio Juan Victoria is a concert hall located in the homonym cultural building inaugurated in 1970, in San Juan province, Argentina. It seats 976 on an audience area of rectangular plant. The scenario is fan shaped and has the capacity for 80 seated musicians and 90 choristers standing. Hall dimensions are of about 22 m width, 40 m length and 10 m height. The hall is equipped with a pipe organ with 44 ranks and 3 565 pipes. In this article, the acoustic quality of the hall is assessed by a questionnaire. Measurements are taken using the state of the art methods, including ISO 3382-1 parameters. Results are compared with subjective and objective data from other similar halls and recommended values from literature.