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Institute of Acoustics president Trevor Cox has described the measurement of the acoustics of the ancient stone circle at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England. In his article, written for New Scientist magazine, he describes how a pair of colleagues went about modelling the acoustic impulse response of the site. After bursting a bunch of balloons at various points around the circle, and recording the SPL the two were able to create some interesting models of how the site might have sounded. FULL STORY...