Why doesn't it echo in a well furnished house?

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That's because sound is reflected from the furniture of your room and comes to your ear quickly and you cannot perceive two of them
while in an empty room the sound takes longer path and hence longer time to reach your ear and hence you hear two different sounds and that's why echo is there.

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Why doesn't it echo in a well furnished house?

That's because sound is reflected from the furniture of your room and comes to your ear quickly and you cannot perceive two of them while in an empty room the sound takes longer path and hence longer time to reach your ear and hence you hear two different sounds and that's why echo is there.

That's because sound is reflected from the furniture of your room and comes to your ear quickly and you cannot perceive two of them
while in an empty room the sound takes longer path and hence longer time to reach your ear and hence you hear two different sounds and that's why echo is there.