supercity88 said:
acton28 said:
Reality is, you make more noise, it gets heard. I think the ground can be bouncing but some games it is duller than Maine Road ever was
I remember the Hamburg home quarter final 2nd leg and it was an incredible atmosphere, the ground was buzzing that day and the noise stayed in and echoed around the ground. If they can make it even better and keep it in, reverberating off the roof and down onto the pitch then it will be epic and would be even better if they split the lower two tiers into away and keep the top tier as city only (which i don't believe they are planning on doing as per the illustrative drawings)
The reality is, that if they have incorporated acoustic damping into the roof at both ends & it works, it could be having an absolutely enormous effect on the atmosphere inside the ground.
It's probably been done in order to improve the sound quality for concerts etc (picture a drummer hitting snare drum onstage the getting back a deafening 10,000kW shity sounding metallic snare drum echo half a second later) but lots of old stadia held concerts without that kind of acoustic design & sounded ok. Maine Road for a start.
When it's said that it's designed to 'stop' sound from one end reaching the other, that's not possible in open air, you would have to put a huge acoustic barrier or a vacuum inbetween, so if a bunch of Poznan fans make an unholy racket, you will still hear it pretty loud at the other end. If the roof is successfully damping the sound however, you will still be hearing it at a lot less level than you would have done without the damping. It would also cut down the sound & therefore the atmosphere in the upper tier & dilute how much of it reaches the lower tier.
All together, if a bunch of City fans start trying to get a song going at one end, it will be less likely that the rest of the ground joins in if it sounds quieter than it actually is. If it's loud, more people join in.
Where I'm sat, I have often wondered why the sound travelling from the North Stand, not just from City fans, but from most away fans, is so feeble sounding where I am. I have often wondered about the possibility of putting in reflective areas in oreder to fix it. Now I'm hearing it's actually been designed to stop it !
If this is true about the roof, changing it could have an absolutely fantastic effect on the atmosphere inside the ground & has me now more excited than the actual expansion itself. It's not guaranteed to make a huge difference but it's very possible it could.
