Hearing speech, the organ, the choir, the piano and the congregation singing affect us all. If you have a good sanctuary and you have a high quality sound system, the only people who are left to complain about the sound are people you have to yell at while talking to them. Good Acoustics and Good Sound means that people with hearing aids will have little or no problem hearing in such a church. Young people who have good hearing want better sound for a different reason. Every day they are exposed to HI FI, high quality car radios and so on.
Young people spend all kinds of money on good sound and they get it too.
When it comes to churches, we should make the same allowance for them. The facts are, if your church has a sound system that meets the needs of older people properly, it will also meet the needs of young people too and vice versa. Churches need to re examine the purpose of the Sanctuary and think long term. How often do we hear of a church that is paid for in less than 15 years and the average age of the members is 30. Again it's all physics and physiology.