magine a new arena in which the sound was so bad the space was unusable. The Lea County Cultural Center in Hobbs, New Mexico was built in 1991. Five years later , the county’ s 60,000 residents hadn’ t gotten much for their $9 million investment. The newly-hired Facilities Manager T odd Duke recalls, “The reverberations were so bad, you couldn’ t hear someone speaking to you 15 feet away . The people who had fought for the Center had sold the c

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