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Rich Hungerford writes:
 
>  Bright is nice and close, but cold and forget hearing the who scored.
 
I have a silly question.  Why *are* there sucky P.A. systems?   Bright
(Harvard), for my money, is a great building -- it's new (well, to eyes
dimmed by the perpetual darkness of a 1959 facility. ;-), comfortable, has a
good scoreboard, and it drips money -- it clearly wasn't starving for the
cash.  And then, as Rich points out, the acoustics are awful, you literally
cannot make out a word.  So the quesiton is, how does this happen?  The
system has only one purpose, and in 15 years of going there it's never
fulfilled it.  The home fans are past complaining about it, they're just
disgusted.  And every new road fan spends the first period saying, "gads, my
seat must be in the *precise* least optimal position..."
 
Is it just a really, really tough problem to get acoustics right?  (I
wouldn't be surprised if it was; a hockey rink isn't exactly a regular 3D
space to fill with sound).  Some systems are excellent, most are adequate,
but then you get a few which are completely useless.
 
 
 
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