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Why is music so loud in restaurants? (Serious) (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I got my hearing professionally checked today and all is normal. But I have difficulty hearing people I am dining with, talking in restaurants. Is it me, or is the music just too damn loud?!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Tile or concrete floors, hard surface walls, glass windows all reflect sound. As people start talking, if they are drinking they get louder, so then each table is trying to talk over the tables around them. Without acoustic damping, it can get pretty loud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

That's a big part of it, but some people are just loud and some restaurants just play their music way too loud all the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Some bosses want to make sure you can hear the music at a decent volume at the back tables. Meanwhile the front tables: