Has been like that ever since I can remember, doesn't matter where you sit.
You just need to really focus and sometimes you maybe able to understand what's being said.

Yep sit east and last couple have been worse than normal. My guess was the speakers facing the other way are working and we are just having to hear it from their side so it's kind if muffled.

I've always found that about the Arena since the first time I went there in 1994. Sit in the corners and the sound system is pretty shocking. Oh sure you can hear the music, but anything anyone says on a mic just about comes across as gibberish.

I remember one time only a couple of years ago when they had the 1986 36ers there. They did an on court interview with Darryl Pearce and seriously, from where I was sitting in the upper concourse near where Pearce's singlet is hanging on the western wall, you could not make out anything the Iceman or the interviewer said.

In saying that, sit on the side of the court near to where the TV camera platform is and you can clearly hear everything said over the PA system.

I stopped commenting years ago about it, it is very dependent on where you sit, but from experience there are more bad spots than good. The turbo sound stuff they have in there is not designed for the job it is too directional

Remember a few years ago we were getting a new cube and sound system? Shame that ally ell through.

It doesn't matter where you sit it is always a muffled mess, just different levels of muffledness! I have sat anywhere from just behind the benches to the corporate suites and it is not clear anywhere. The whole system is a poorly designed over engineered piece of S*#t. Doesn't help the arena went into liquidation and then spent a season controlled by a bank when they were planning an upgrade. Hopefully the Scouts and Church Basketball spend some $$'s in the off-season and do it properly.

It doesn't help when the announcer talks too quickly. I'm sure that Jarro
d (spelling?) is fine in his radio studio environment but he needs to slow down in the arena. Bonz knew to do that - you could hear everything he said.

yep, we couldn't understand a word either friday night! I really hope they invest some money into upgrading a lot of things in that stadium. It's well overdue!

yeah... same ol' same ol' really - even with newer speakers than we used to have.

Add to that the girls selling raffle tickets shouldn't do so up and down the isles in front of people while play is on;

A better and consistent strategy for cars exiting the carpark;

Consistently preventing kids from crowding the stairs along the players race while play is on;

The scoreboard being 200 years old and;

Half time "entertainment" not actually being-so.


.. but hey, its much easier to accept things like this havn't changed when your team is winning and you are seeing some awesome b-ball (while at the same time hoping greater success will bring a bigger budget for resolving some of these issues). :-)

Let's go Sixers!

Yep, the sound system is an issue, but Jarrod's delivery, notwithstanding his radio experience [or perhaps because of it], is an issue. If you deliver quickly in that environment, or any PA environment, for that matter, the words just run together.

God help us if there was ever an emergency situation and people needed to be directed or guided per the PA, though I guess that would be the role of the court announcer and his voice is usually relatively clear, despite the limitations of the sound system.

Jarrod Walsh is pretty poor in every sports presentation position I have seen him in. (Seen him fill in some A-League United matches and something else).

Anonymous the entertainment center wouldn't be the answer, to expensive and restrictive. AEC have made a mess of Coopers Stadium (Hindmarsh Stadium) and really don't think the value would be there for the sixers. They would have to set-up the court and a PA every week, no real players change rooms and they wouldn't have anywhere for their retired jersey's, championship banners etc. etc. not to mention having to then hire a training court.