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Old 01-10-2018, 09:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Mleeja View Post
Most of the restaurants are constructed not to absorb sound. With high open ceilings and lots of hard surfaces, sounds just “bounce” around. Then it is a vicious cycle, it is loud in the restaurant, so everyone talks louder to be heard.
That is correct. There are not enough soft surfaces. In our church up north there were very high ceilings and brick walls. They had some sound absorbing panels built and installed them on the walls and it made a big difference.