During the last decade, the sports industry has gradually moved away from that trend, building facilities designed for one specific use. Nowadays, soccer stadiums and football stadiums tend to be the largest, while baseball stadiums are more modest in size.
Football stadiums are also generally the most symmetrical in terms of geometric layout.
We've learned from this extensive experience that today's stadiums demand increased performance form their systems. While the physical structure of a sports arena or stadium dictates what audio design and installation decisions are made, it does not alter the goals we wish to achieve from whatever sound system we happen to be dealing with. The most important goal we strive for is a high level of intelligibility and even coverage throughout the seating areas. As the general public becomes more accustomed to discerning between high quality audio and poor sound, it's up to consultants and contractors to ensure that a system delivers the desired impact. Centralized clusters, where al of the loudspeakers are located within the scoreboard structure, were commonplace in most of the earlier generations of stadiums and are more common in football stadiums today.