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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

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>Sheila O. Denn
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