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Eckhard Kahle is director of Kahle Acoustics. Eckhard Kahle trained both as an acoustician and as a professional musician, and obtained his PhD for research on an objective model of the perception of acoustical quality in concert halls, opera houses, and recital halls, undertaken at Ircam in Paris, including a series of extensive objective acoustical measurements and subjective listening tests in several European facilities for music performance. From 1995 – 2001, he worked for Artec Consultants Inc in New York, amongst other projects, as project manager for the new concert hall at the KKL in Lucerne, Switzerland. In 2001, he founded his own acoustic consulting firm Kahle Acoustics, located in Brussels and specializing in room acoustic design for the performing arts.