Lest we think

[supergee]

Why are restaurants so noisy? Even if I weren’t hearing disabled, I would favor a law banning recorded music in restaurants and stores.

Comments

[flamingsword]

It does not seem to me to be too hard a programming problem to make a sort of thermostatic mixing valve for audio. A decibel meter and a Raspberry Pi computer server and a simple if [decibels] > x then lower [music volume] type program would do pretty well to solve both the too noisy and too quiet problems.

[supergee]

Too quiet isn't a problem.

[flamingsword]

But ... But there could be jazz. Why would you want there to be not-jazz when there could be jazz coming softly over the PA? Some sounds enhance quiet instead of breaking it.

[weofodthignen]

It might be modern jazz :-)

In any case, quiet music is inaudible to me when there's any kind of other noise. Which sometimes solves the problem, for me ...