Kate Matsuda · 5 answers · 1y
Was travelling with the Pais subway Métro. I took the wrong line. Like on any station worldwide the travel info by audio announcement was uncomprehensibly distored. We can fill big statiums with music and sound and opera and speeches and choirs. What is so difficult about stations then? Why does it in all languages sound like a herd of ducks quacking? Damn it!!
I'm not sure, it could be that train stations have horrible acoustics because of their shape. Maybe there are possible measures to counteract that, but maybe it would be way too expensive to convince whoever directs money flow to invest that much in making the audio clearer. Music venues have a much larger incentive to sound good. Opera halls and other places where opera singers and choirs sing are pre-designed to have great acoustics, or even if they're not, they may not be shaped as bad as a train station.
