NOISE RELATED RANDOM TALK TOPIC

[Balor/SS1535]

(not to mention the only ones that I can turn up LOUD) are in my car.

I can relate to this, and it actually makes me curious, more along the lines of HOW do you listen to noise than WHAT you listen to it with, but how many out there actually CAN blast noise on their speakers?

I lived in apartments for many years, and needless to say, blasting noise full force would have quickly led to an eviction notice on my door, if not jail at worst. Nowadays, I own a home, but there are still limitations in how loud you can be. Sure, I could convert a room in the basement, I suppose, to almost the equivalent of a recording studio where no sound would leak out, but there's far better uses of my time and money at the moment.

Yeah, I could do it in my car too, but I don't need to drive anywhere for long trips usually, and anyway, I prefer to actively listen to noise with my full attention, so I don't really like putting it on there.

I have a pretty good setup for headphones, so I don't usually mind (I splurged a bit on my equipment, but not insanely so). But I do sometimes wonder how much I'm missing out by listening exclusively to most things by headphones.

What's really sad is that most of the noise shows in my area are hosted by a guy who only books events at places where volume control is required...  So even live noise is capped for me!

Thankfully my drive is VERY repetitive, so I do have the luxury of being able to focus on the noise more than others might be able to when driving (and, perhaps, more than I should be for the sake of safety).

[Minus1]

I rarely do long drives, but there was one time where I knew I could do all 10 of the Merzphysics discs...and I did! (Alone, of course.) 😂