Mr Bob Delbridge needn't worry about being the only person to find the amplification at Baycourt too loud. All our friends do as well. I myself have complained over years to the ticket office, the users and the manager – anybody who would listen. I have complained to the operators as well. One actually took it on board and walked down the steps when a musical was ongoing, to test his sound.
When we had four great singers up in the Exhibition Hall, the music simply drowned them out. At half time I approached the operator to tell him this. He became very angry saying no one else had complained. I replied 'Lots of people don't like to complain, but I'm not like that, and you're ruining the show.”
He became even more angry, and it was then I realised he was very deaf from his own music, so what he heard was normal to him. So there you are, I've done all I can. I call it the Baycourt disease, and it's a pity that such a nice Theatre is ruined by these deaf idiots.
RB Wyld, Tauranga.