Tapsearch Com EditorToo loud, man. Too loud.
August 7th 2007 22:09
Here's a story complaining about people playing their iPods at excessive volumes. There's definitely a point there -- I've heard people play their music so loud everyone on the entire subway car could hear, and the stories about people singing along are pretty absurd.
That said, subways are loud themselves. Sometimes you have to turn it up just to hear it over the whirring of the tunnel, and when the train stops other people can probably hear it.
Also, it's pretty difficult to tell how badly your own earphones are isolating their noise. I thought mine were quite reasonably adjusted once, but when I rode the subway with my girlfriend she informed me she could hear them.
Maybe people just need to get more aggressive with confronting headphone blarers. Every incident I've observed, people have just seethed in silence.
On a side note, I got some Sony headphones with butterfly-looking things that clip to my ears. My glasses hold the clips tightly, so I think that solved the problem. Not sure using my glasses to jam the bud into my ear is a good idea, but they sound good.
That said, subways are loud themselves. Sometimes you have to turn it up just to hear it over the whirring of the tunnel, and when the train stops other people can probably hear it.
Also, it's pretty difficult to tell how badly your own earphones are isolating their noise. I thought mine were quite reasonably adjusted once, but when I rode the subway with my girlfriend she informed me she could hear them.
Maybe people just need to get more aggressive with confronting headphone blarers. Every incident I've observed, people have just seethed in silence.
On a side note, I got some Sony headphones with butterfly-looking things that clip to my ears. My glasses hold the clips tightly, so I think that solved the problem. Not sure using my glasses to jam the bud into my ear is a good idea, but they sound good.
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