The Egg is the affectionate nickname for the flying-saucer-ish Performing Arts Center that is integral to the Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY. There are two theaters inside that bring in a lot of really excellent acts that are too small or too cool to play the arena/stadium circuit. There is also a Convention Center and some meeting rooms.

Anyhow, they are looking to do some acoustical treatment of the lobby which badly needs it...the whole Concourse of the Plaza is simply awful....It's like being inside a really bad reverb chamber. Hard surfaces, flat, parallel walls, perfectly perpendicular shapes, rectangular areas with nothing to lessen or absorb any noise. Again, I'm talking about the whole Concourse here, not the Performing Arts Center theaters, which are excellent.

Next step is to hire an Architectural/Acoustical consultant to come in and recommend some treatment. I'd be interested to see what types of measuring they do, if they come in with a decibel meter or something that will graph the frequency response... will they pink the room? They will probably propose some sort of hanging baffles/ drapes and hopefully some kind of wall treatment too. Really, it's so bad, anything they do will be an improvement.

The acoustics down there have always been a pet peeve of mine. Especially around the Holidays when school bands and choruses from all over the state come to perform.

Also when my kids were small I took them to see Jay Jay the Jet Plane, and I think everybody in the audience suffered permanent hearing damage that day. Even now when I see a schoolbus load of kids heading for the McDonalds I cross all the way over to the other side. My hearing is just too precious to take that kind of needless abuse! eek

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