Imagine the Single Worst Audio Friendly Indoor Environment
stretchl
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A big box type grocery store. The local one had a live band today. Absolutely horrid, eardrum-scraping experience that had me running for the doors with little time to spare: “Sapphire” playing at 82bd as measured on the floor. 
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I had a church call me for audio advice after they constructed a fellowship hall with one whole wall glass, full tile floors and vaulted sheet rock ceiling. They couldn't have any type of meeting due to the reflections on all surfaces. They refused each of my suggestions of curtains on the glass wall due to the view, hanging draperies in the vaulted ceiling areas, rugs on the tile floors and wall acoustical treatments. I politely congratulated them on their new echo chamber.HT Optoma HD25 LV on 80" DIY Screen, Anthem MRX 300 Receiver, Pioneer Elite BDP 51FD Polk CS350LS, Polk SDA1C, Polk FX300, Polk RT55, Dual EBS Adire Shiva 320watt tuned to 17hz, ICs-DIY Twisted Prs, Speaker-Raymond Cable
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At least the fresh veggies provide a bit of dampening, I suppose...“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
- Isaac Asimov
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Why was a band playing in a grocery store? Inquiring minds want to know !!!!If you can't hear a difference, don't waste your money.
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Who knows. Would make me not want to shop there anymore. I hate people trying to force what they think is "good music" on me.Why was a band playing in a grocery store? Inquiring minds want to know !!!!
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Also why is nobody talking about that sweet John Deere tractor?
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Also why is nobody talking about that sweet John Deere tractor?
... 'cause it's not a Kubota
The store we shopped at when we lived in MA used to have a harpist performing live on weekend days and at Christmastime in the front of the store. She was (is) pretty good, and it was actually a pretty nice effect overall. We bought her Christmas music CD one year
-- I am a sucker for holiday music.
http://www.harpist4all.com/
Rebecca Swett
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My vote for worst acoustic environment goes to any Chipotles.
The fact that some, perhaps many, of them use Klipsch Heresys (or clones
thereof) for 'sound reinforcement' just -- ahem -- reinforces the effect.
https://www.klipsch.com/blog/klipsch-install-stories-chipotle-adds-heresy-iii -
I like the store's style. Selling vodka in the produce section. Effen Vodka that is. To make Effen Bloody Marys with.
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mhardy6647 wrote: »My vote for worst acoustic environment goes to any Chipotles.
The fact that some, perhaps many, of them use Klipsch Heresys (or clones
thereof) for 'sound reinforcement' just -- ahem -- reinforces the effect.
https://www.klipsch.com/blog/klipsch-install-stories-chipotle-adds-heresy-iii
HERESY’S! that’s what they are! I’ve been trying to figure out what they were since the first time I went to chipotle like 2 years ago! Thanks, you have just made my day.
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oh, that's what they are, all righty. It'd probably have been cheaper to just hire an under-employed hipster to sit at the door and smack each customer in one ear (ideally, both) with an icepick.
Same net result.
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I had a bunch of people tell me the new Georgia Dome / Mercedes Benz whatever is down right awful for both music and the announcers. Anyone confirm that?
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