ASHEVILLE, NC 8.22.19—Central Park’s days and nights have been filled with concerts and dance performances for this year’s Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage series that began the first of June and ends in early October with ElsieFest, an annual concert of Broadway music curated by Darren Criss. This year, the not-for-profit City Parks Foundation renovated its flagship venue, transforming it with a new stage and new d&b audiotechnik sound system. The mission was to improve the sound quality for audiences within the venue and to create an atmosphere with fewer noise reflections off the surrounding buildings, an issue for the residents living around the park.
To address the concerns of Central Park’s neighbors, the SummerStage team utilizedd&b NoizCalc environmental noise prediction software, which allows the user to accurately predict the far-field noise immisions associated with a d&b sound system...
