Institute for Language Sciences Labs

Cabins

Cabin 3

Technical specs

Cabin

  • Single wall booth, one door, small window in door, cooling ceiling;
    Installed by Acoustair B.V., August 2006
  • Reverberation time:
    0.30s at 125Hz
    0.25s at 250Hz
    0.25s at 500Hz
    0.25s at 1000Hz
    0.25s at 2000Hz
    (measured August 2006 according to Dutch standard NEN 5077:1991)
  • Noise reduction from room K.10 to inside cabin:
    38.8dB at 125Hz
    44.2dB at 250Hz
    51.7dB at 500Hz
    50.4dB at 1000Hz
    51.8dB at 2000Hz
    (measured August 2006 according to Dutch standard NEN 5077:1991)
  • Background noise level: 14.0 dB(A)
    (measured August 2006 according to Dutch standard NEN 5077:1991)
  • Cabin dimensions (internal, empty): width 220 cm, depth 240 cm, height 210 cm
    (cabin width defined as the width of the wall along which the subject desk is placed)
  • Lighting: TL5 HE, standard color 830, direct or indirect illumination of desk;
    after 10 min. warm-up approx. 570 lux direct, approx. 120 lux indirect
  • Chair: regular office chair, rotate locked

Internal equipment

  • 21,5″ LCD (TN panel) Iiyama E2273HDS (native 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz, response time 2ms), keyboard, mouse
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic DT250/80 Ohm
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic with mouthpiece DT292/80 Ohm
  • Microphone Sennheiser ME-64
  • 2x Active two-way speaker Genelec 1029A 80W

External equipment

  • Dell Precision 3640
    • Intel Core i5-10500 CPU
    • 16 GB RAM
    • 1 TB SSD + 1 TB SSD
    • Windows 10, 64 bit + Ubuntu Mate 20.04
    • audio card Asus Xonar D2
  • Microphone preamplifier Symetrix 302 (channel 1 connected to ME-64, channel 2 to DT292 mic.)
  • 2x Mono amplifier Marantz MA6100 (connected to both DT250 and DT292);
    trimmed to produce 106 dB SPL @ 1 Khz (sine wave) on the headphones when driven by the PC sound card which is set at maximum output
  • Intercom Aiphone LEF-3
  • Headphones on request

Before 2020

Internal equipment

  • 21,5″ LCD (TN panel) Iiyama E2273HDS (native 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz, response time 2ms), keyboard, mouse
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic DT250/80 Ohm
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic with mouthpiece DT292/80 Ohm
  • Microphone Sennheiser ME-64
  • 2x Active two-way speaker Genelec 1029A 80W

External equipment

  • HP Compaq 6300 PRO MT PC
    • Intel Core i5 (3e Gen) 3470, Quad-Core at 3.2 GHz (3.6 boost).
    • 21,5″ LCD (TN panel) Iiyama E2273HDS (native 1920 x 1080 at 60Hz, response time 2ms),
    • Windows 7 / Ubuntu 12.04
    • RAM 4Gb
  • DAT recorder Tascam DA-40
  • AD converter MindPrint AN/DI Pro
  • Microphone preamplifier Symetrix 302 (channel 1 connected to ME-64, channel 2 to DT292 mic.)
  • 2x Mono amplifier Marantz MA6100 (connected to both DT250 and DT292);
    trimmed to produce 106 dB SPL @ 1 Khz (sine wave) on the headphones when driven by the PC sound card which is set at maximum output
  • Intercom Aiphone LEF-3
  • Blackbox rgb splitter
  • Headphones BeyerDynamic DT770, 2x 250Ohm

Before August 2016:

Internal equipment

  • 17″ CRT Iiyama Vision Master Pro 413, keyboard, mouse, button boxes (2-Buttonbox & 4-ButtonBox)
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic DT250/80 Ohm
  • Headphones Beyerdynamic with mouthpiece DT292/80 Ohm
  • Microphone Sennheiser ME-64
  • 2x Active two-way speaker Genelec 1029A 80W

External equipment

  • PC Cooler Master (CIM pc 9200L) :
    • Windows XP SP3 & Ubuntu linux 12.04
    • iiyama vision master pro 413 17″ monitor
    • CPU Intel Core2 Quad CPU(Q9950 @ 2.83 GHz
    • memory 4Gb, available: 3,25 Gb
    • 30 + 500 Gb HDD
  • DAT recorder Tascam DA-40
  • AD converter MindPrint AN/DI Pro
  • Microphone preamplifier Symetrix 302 (channel 1 connected to ME-64, channel 2 to DT292 mic.)
  • 2x Mono amplifier Marantz MA6100 (connected to both DT250 and DT292);
    trimmed to produce 106 dB SPL @ 1 Khz (sine wave) on the headphones when driven by the PC sound card which is set at maximum output
  • Intercom Aiphone LEF-3
  • Blackbox rgb splitter
  • Headphones BeyerDynamic DT770, 2x 250Ohm

Facility

This cabin is part of the Phonetics lab.