Sound Ledger¹ (Loud Babies, Renovated Philharmonic)

Audio culture by the numbers

$10: Surcharge at a restaurant in Singapore for screaming children (in $U.S.)

$500,000,000: Cost of renovating what is now David Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fisher Hall), home to the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center home (in $U.S.)

170,000,000: Estimated number of vinyl records the current music global production resources are capable of printing annually

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¹Footnotes

Children: [news.yahoo.com](https://news.yahoo.com/fewer-customer-complaints-noisy-children-fines-policy-restaurant-162452728.html) (via Boing Boing). Philharmonic: [nytimes.com](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/arts/music/david-geffen-hall-reopening-lincoln-center.html). Vinyl: [washingtonpost.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2022/perfect-sound-quality-vinyl-records/).

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