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- From: wpmadden@eos.ncsu.edu (Bill Madden)
- Subject: Re: Sound Quality in Dean Dome
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.213957.16493@ncsu.edu>
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- Organization: North Carolina State University
- References: <1992Nov18.200540.4948@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:39:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.200540.4948@samba.oit.unc.edu> sodenn@med.unc.edu (Sheila O. Denn) writes:
- >I am afraid that sound quality has consistently been a problem in the Dean
- >Dome. I attended one of the very first concerts to be presented there (I
- >think it was David Bowie), and the sound was just awful. At the time
-
- Yeah, this was the first and list concert that I attended at the
- Dean Smithsonion. It was Spring 87, Bowie's insipid Glass Spider tour,
- with cheap theatrics and a 4 story stage.
- The sound was was terrible!
-
- >(this would have been '86 or '87) some talk was bandied about on doing
- >something to improve it, but the last post indicates that this never
- >happened.
- > I think it would involve putting up some kind of temporary shield under
- >the dome so that sound wouldn't get up there and bounce around so badly.
- >I am no physicist, so please don't flame me if this guess is way off the
- >mark on physical feasibility :)
-
- Quite useless, IMO, the place was built to hold hordes of ppl for Chapel
- Hill basketball games, not at all for acoustics. Mungy R&R was meant for
- the old Cradle or San Francisco's Matrix of old, doncha know better
- chance for early hearing loss :^>
-
- Wm
-
- >
- >
- >Sheila O. Denn
- >denn.msalan2@med.unc.edu
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- Bill Madden
- wpmadden@eos.ncsu.edu
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