I didnt see a post about this, So I figured I would pipe up. It was reported that during game 2 against Buffalo at the RBC Center, a decibel level of 133.2 db was recorded; this broke the decibel level record for an indoor arena, previously set at a Sacramento Kings NBA game, that level was 127. According to which website you go to 133 db can be the equivalent of an air raid, or a jet engine at 200 feet, which is pretty fucking loud. So now officially the RBC Center is officially the loudest arena. Cool!

5/29/2006 2:05:33 AM

its not that loud for bbal games

5/29/2006 2:14:51 AM

There aren't big reflective surfaces in there for basketbal games.

Also, basketball doesn't lend itself to large, singular moments of explosive cheering like hockey does.

5/29/2006 2:16:48 AM

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"Also, basketball doesn't lend itself to large, singular moments of explosive cheering like hockey does."

Very true.

Oh, and this tidbit was reported in the Durham Herald-Sun (the game 2 133+ setting the record for loudest indoor sporting event)

5/29/2006 2:19:26 AM

isn't 133 hearing loss and pain level? I'm doubt their methodology.

5/29/2006 2:21:08 AM

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"isn't 133 hearing loss and pain level? I'm doubt their methodology."

It can cause damage at that level. It is accurate. I mean think about it... OLN was showing the meter at big times but not the peak corwd noise by any stretch and it was staying at around 110.

http://www.dangerousdecibels.org/hearingloss.cfm

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" * A typical conversation occurs at 60 dB - not loud enough to cause damage. * A bulldozer that is idling (note that this is idling, not actively bulldozing) is loud enough at 85 dB that it can cause permanent damage after only 1 work day (8 hours). * When listening to music on earphones at a standard volume level 5, the sound generated reaches a level of 100 dB, loud enough to cause permanent damage after just 15 minutes per day! * A clap of thunder from a nearby storm (120 dB) or a gunshot (140-190 dB, depending on weapon), can both cause immediate damage. "

5/29/2006 2:45:48 AM

that's fucking awesome!

5/29/2006 3:08:35 AM

What's the definition of sustained?

When Staal scored in Game 2 against Jersey, it definitely gave me a headache and some serious ear fatigue. I didn't get anything like that on Saturday (the 133 dB game in question).

5/29/2006 3:12:11 AM

haha that's because your hearing was already damaged

5/29/2006 3:27:49 AM

I already have plenty of hearing damage from a combination of race cars and guitar amps .

5/29/2006 3:35:23 AM

good thing there is no decibel meter at cameron indoor staduim...I would hate to know what kind of levels my ears have been subjected to there for the last few years. I was at Game 2 and the noise level still could'nt compare to some games at duke...such as duke/unc this past year. I had a ringing in my left ear that lasted for more than 2 weeks after that game, and I actually went to the doctor about it ....I have vowed to start wearing earplugs to the games next season.

[Edited on May 29, 2006 at 10:30 AM. Reason : s]

5/29/2006 10:28:26 AM

i was there at that game and it was loud as shit. they were a couple meters that people were holding and they showed them in the scoreboard/jumbtron when they were 133dB...

5/29/2006 10:50:58 AM

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"Also, NC STATE basketball doesn't lend itself to large, singular moments of explosive cheering like hockey does."

5/29/2006 11:00:12 AM

I see what you did there

5/29/2006 11:10:13 AM

^ gahaha

5/29/2006 11:47:17 AM

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"good thing there is no decibel meter at cameron indoor staduim...I would hate to know what kind of levels my ears have been subjected to there for the last few years. I was at Game 2 and the noise level still could'nt compare to some games at duke...such as duke/unc this past year. I had a ringing in my left ear that lasted for more than 2 weeks after that game, and I actually went to the doctor about it ....I have vowed to start wearing earplugs to the games next season."

Actually, Cameron Indoor has reached as high as 125 but it is not louder than what is achieved at the RBC Center in the playoffs. Cameron doesn't get peak noise, it just has a really high sustained noise (though Reynolds was louder).

5/29/2006 12:17:26 PM

I was at the American Idol concert thing at the RBC Center when Clay Aiken first came back to Raleigh... He rose out of the floor and I swear, the RBC was louder than any arena i've EVER heard... You would have thought Elvis just came out of the floor. It was mostly the shrill blood-curdling screams of women, but I swear it was so loud you couldn't even hear the first half of his song. All I could hear was static in my ear it was so loud.
(I went with family, not by myself or anything) That was the loudest i've ever heard it, and i've been to some pretty exciting sporting events there.

5/29/2006 12:23:04 PM

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"I was at the American Idol concert thing at the RBC Center when Clay Aiken first came back to Raleigh"

Suspend

5/29/2006 12:25:33 PM

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"good thing there is no decibel meter at cameron indoor staduim...I would hate to know what kind of levels my ears have been subjected to there for the last few years. I was at Game 2 and the noise level still could'nt compare to some games at duke...such as duke/unc this past year. I had a ringing in my left ear that lasted for more than 2 weeks after that game, and I actually went to the doctor about it ....I have vowed to start wearing earplugs to the games next season."

go to a game at reynolds pre-RBC.

5/29/2006 12:29:27 PM

indoor arena pussies

5/29/2006 1:21:18 PM

If there is a way to compare the noise of an open stadium.... like a major college football stadium, to that of an indoor arena.... I think you would find that football games can be much louder....

Granted 133dB is crazy loud, I've been in a couple football stadiums that were louder....

5/29/2006 4:58:46 PM

I thought the Metrodome held the record, or is there a seating restriction at work here?

5/29/2006 5:04:08 PM

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""Also, basketball doesn't lend itself to large, singular moments of explosive cheering like hockey does." "

--- maybe thats why it is so boring

[Edited on May 29, 2006 at 5:10 PM. Reason : !]

5/29/2006 5:09:59 PM

from the university of minnesota's website:

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"The noise generated by nearly 65,000 fans has given the Metrodome a nickname: The ThunderDome. Baseball fans around the country will remember the moment during the late innings of Game 6 of the 1987 Minnesota Twins-St. Louis Cardinals World Series when ABC-TV’s decibel meter broke because of the mind-numbing roar which bordered on illegal."

5/29/2006 5:13:57 PM

it could be loud at bball games, but first we would need something to cheer for

5/29/2006 7:29:20 PM

...just think how loud we could get it if they took the sound-damping curtains down from the ceiling.

5/29/2006 7:33:05 PM

loud enough to help our ACC record?

5/29/2006 8:32:11 PM

^^^^, but whats that.. like 2 and a half times more the crowd?


[Edited on May 29, 2006 at 8:37 PM. Reason : and some change.. even less than that]

5/29/2006 8:37:09 PM

I like to see what the decibel readings were when Stall scored with 3 seconds left in game 2 vs New Jersey, I was there, and it was fucking loud; people that left and were outside said it sounded like a bomb going off, and they were standing outside. I dont see how the buffalo series goal could have topped that, but who knows, either way we have the record for the loudest arena now.

5/29/2006 11:53:48 PM

$ per ticket and db rating are directly proportional

5/30/2006 12:03:24 AM

And to think, you can fit more people in the arena for a basketball game

5/30/2006 12:13:27 AM

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"I was at the American Idol concert thing at the RBC Center when Clay Aiken first came back to Raleigh... He rose out of the floor and I swear, the RBC was louder than any arena i've EVER heard... You would have thought Elvis just came out of the floor. It was mostly the shrill blood-curdling screams of women, but I swear it was so loud you couldn't even hear the first half of his song. All I could hear was static in my ear it was so loud. (I went with family, not by myself or anything) That was the loudest i've ever heard it, and i've been to some pretty exciting sporting events there."

Gayest post in sports talk EVARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5/30/2006 4:56:44 PM

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"When Staal scored in Game 2 against Jersey, it definitely gave me a headache and some serious ear fatigue. I didn't get anything like that on Saturday (the 133 dB game in question)."

staal's game winner was when the 133 was recorded

5/30/2006 5:33:17 PM

For posterity's sake, it wasn't the game winner.

I only say that because Nic Wallin got the GWG, and he has half as many in the playoffs as the fucking ROCKET.

5/30/2006 5:35:19 PM

Could someone provide a source for this 133 decibal thing? The meter they kept showing on OLN was hovering between 100 and 110 decibals at the loudest parts of Sunday's game, and the decibal scale is logarithmic, so 133 would be absurd. Edmonton has been measured at 115, and that place is insanely loud.

5/30/2006 5:48:23 PM

http://www.raleighing.com/2006/05/caniacs_deafeni.html

5/30/2006 5:52:33 PM

^^they weren't showing that at the loudest parts of the game...

5/30/2006 5:53:47 PM

^^

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"121dB - UNC@NCSU 1991 - UNC had to call a second-half timeout and Reynolds Coliseum went nuts."

Nice.

5/30/2006 6:09:25 PM

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"Also, basketball the Princeton offense doesn't lend itself to large, singular moments of explosive cheering like hockey does."

but thanks to our "lunatic fringe", we're well on our way to remedying what ailed us

5/30/2006 6:23:58 PM

guess the max sustained decibel level for game 7.

i say 119.

5/31/2006 10:44:12 PM

Sounds about right.

6/1/2006 3:33:56 AM

so the over/under is 119. I'll take the over.

6/1/2006 8:40:01 AM

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"Could someone provide a source for this 133 decibal thing? The meter they kept showing on OLN was hovering between 100 and 110 decibals at the loudest parts of Sunday's game, and the decibal scale is logarithmic, so 133 would be absurd. Edmonton has been measured at 115, and that place is insanely loud. http://www.raleighing.com/2006/05/caniacs_deafeni.html"

THey also wrote a story in it in the Durham Herald-Sun

6/1/2006 9:26:57 AM

somebody answer a question for me:


I've only sat in 300 level seats when I've gone to Canes games, so I'm unfamiliar with the proximity of the lower level, first row seats.

are they close enough to the glass to touch it?

if the answer is "yes" then why don't the "Caniacs" beat the shit out of the glass in order to maintain home ice advantage like every other teams fans do?

i'm still not sold that the Canes have great fans

6/1/2006 11:00:43 PM

beating on glass /= great fans

6/1/2006 11:04:42 PM

what makes a great fan? yelling "woo" after the team scores and then doing absolutely nothing until they score again (aside from booing the penalties)

canes fans need to learn from their counterparts

10 years is long enough....

6/1/2006 11:07:28 PM

devils advocate

btw, a great fan is not those assholes that chant assanine shit about opposing players mothers (or whatever).

[Edited on June 1, 2006 at 11:09 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2006 11:08:32 PM

i'm not advocating the Devils, per se

but now that you mention it, their fans were MUCH better than ours

and I really think that Edmenton's fans are going to put ours to shame. canadian hockey fans are continuously loud for all 60 minutes

6/1/2006 11:09:55 PM

if we beat them who cares.

6/1/2006 11:25:30 PM

Beating on the glass during play is not only stupid, it's dangerous.

6/2/2006 12:37:49 AM