My gym has turned up the music they play over the loudspeakers. It's terrible Top 40 dance music, so I use my headphones to listen to my own music. The problem is that even though I crank my personal music to ear-damaging levels, I can still faintly hear the club's dance music in the background. It's worse when I'm trying to listen to a new band and don't know the song, because then I'm actually trying to listen so I hear the ambient noise that much more. The only reasonable solution is to play albums that I've heard a thousand times at that high volume. Then I can focus on The Clash, and by focus I mean that I can tune it out and hear nothing. So I'm basically pumping super loud music into my skull so I can have a little peace and quiet. It's an odd world we live in.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Gym Music
My gym has turned up the music they play over the loudspeakers. It's terrible Top 40 dance music, so I use my headphones to listen to my own music. The problem is that even though I crank my personal music to ear-damaging levels, I can still faintly hear the club's dance music in the background. It's worse when I'm trying to listen to a new band and don't know the song, because then I'm actually trying to listen so I hear the ambient noise that much more. The only reasonable solution is to play albums that I've heard a thousand times at that high volume. Then I can focus on The Clash, and by focus I mean that I can tune it out and hear nothing. So I'm basically pumping super loud music into my skull so I can have a little peace and quiet. It's an odd world we live in.
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I have the exact same problem. I think I will go deaf before I hit middle age, simply because I have to have my ipod on at full volume to drown out the terrible gym music.
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