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"Apple's recently unveiled store in Palo Alto, California has a mixed impact on the senses \u2014 beautiful to the eyes, complete torture to the ears.\nThat's right: according to The Guardian, the newest Apple Store, while a pleasure to look at from the outside, is just unbearably loud on the inside.\n\"The store is impressive. . .but its also unpleasantly, almost unbearably noisy,\" writes Jean-Louis Gass\u00E9e. \"And mine isn't a voice in the wilderness. The wife of a friend walked in, spent a few minutes, and vowed to never return for fear of hearing loss. She'd rather go to the cramped but much more hospitable Stanford store.\"\nPoor acoustics seem to be the culprit: the store's arch-style design may be bouncing sound waves from customers, employees and technology right back to shop dweller's ears. And it's pretty bad indeed:\n\"On a relatively quiet Saturday evening,\" wrote Gass\u00E9e, \"the noise level around the Genius Bar exceeded 75 decibels.\" \nThat's nearly as loud as a busy city street, so one can only imagine what it's like on a busy day. Apple, for its part, is apparently working on the problem: sound level monitors have been spotted in the store. See the video above for more information.\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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