A closer look
If the sound suddenly drops during the finale, do not blame the audio technicians. Most open-air arenas are bound by draconian municipal ordinances that dictate exact decibel limits at the property line. If the sound waves creeping into the neighboring residential district cross an arbitrary threshold, city officials will slap the organizers with catastrophic fines. It is a hilarious reality that massive, multimillion-dollar entertainment empires are entirely at the mercy of angry neighborhood associations with noise meters.
