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Originally Posted by ebarker

The sound data report has the seat location for stand data during Einstein and arena location for the dome floor during divisional eliminations. The data I reported above for div. elims. had locations of sections 111 to 114 rows 1 to 35, which is in Curie.

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Many decades ago I spent my teenage years working in a radio station and doing a lot of sound work in large arenas. It was great fun learning how the inflow/outflow of people can change the demand quantity of power delivered through a PA system. The amount of power needed in a dome full of people would crush your head in an empty arena. I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but for those that are not familiar with these systems - you have to have an operator on station full time if there is an inflow/outflow of people, like during the prelims, and divisional finals. That is what we are paying the audio people for.


Ed

Ed, thanks for fleshing all that out, for taking the measurements in the first place, and for approaching UL on it - I didn't even think of them but that makes a lot of sense. While it's nice that local venues may have standards, I suspect those standards probably apply to noise outside the venue that might affect the public (not an issue), and for sound levels for events which might last a couple hours. Our event is unusual in that we have loud music and amplified voices and sounds over a sustained period of 8-10 hours for 2-3 days at a time.

We were also in Cuire, but we were in the 117 section - right under the speakers in the front row. I suspect the sound was considerably louder right under the speaker stack. Of course that was also the best place to scout from

Cheers,
Lee