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luddite

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Got home from a really hard pressed week of work today, cracked open a bottle, opened a pack of smokes and lit up the Number One stereo setup. Started with a relaxing Haydn album but then switched gears over to Led Zeppelin One, side two, and from the get go decided to push the speakers to possibly damaging volume. They held up. Next was Tijuana Brass, The Lonely Bull track... then Peter Gunn, the theme track... then on to Ellington at Newport, the last long track on side two. I wish my old Dad could have heard it at this volume.
Then wife came in from work and turned down the volume, claiming she could hear all the neighbours slamming their windows shut. She keeps the peace around here, I guess, but it sure is fun before she gets home on Friday.
 
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I was recently told that my music could be heard from all the way down the street.

There is a house a few doors down though with some young kids who literally scream all day long as they play outside. All of a sudden no one cares about my music being loud anymore :D
 
Chris Brown said:
I was recently told that my music could be heard from all the way down the street.

There is a house a few doors down though with some young kids who literally scream all day long as they play outside. All of a sudden no one cares about my music being loud anymore :D
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My solution is to have elderly neighbors that can no longer hear. OTOH, if the neighbor across the street keeps disturbing my classsical music with that damn one-note HT sub I might complain.
 
Ahhh yeah....

After I got out of the AF I did a short stint living at home with my mother while I was job hunting. Being still young at the time, about 25 years ago, and having Cerwin D-9s and Yamaha M-80, I did a fair bit of cranking on tunes when Mom was out of the house.

One day she came home early from work while I still had the tunes cranking. As the sound lowered toward the end of a tune I hear this pounding on my bedroom door...and the words I'll never forget (only time I recall hearing mom curse) "What do you think this is, a g--damn concert hall???"
 
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My unfinished basement with concrete walls, floor and heavily insulated 8 foot ceilings gets the concert level sound (nova8s or KLH 6s). Never had any complaints from the neighbors yet! Upstairs, I'm a proper gentleman.
 
Where I live (inner city), no one ever complains about the volume levels I routinely use. In the summer time when I have the windows open my younger neighbors sit on my porch steps and try to make requests.
 
Kudos on the bottle and the smokes - sounds like me in the early 80's.
For me it was either Lynyrd Skynyrd's Free Bird, VanHalen's Jump or Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water on Friday afternoon. A good 8oz glass of Dewars and I waited for my wife to tell me she could hear it at the mailbox (about 70 yards away) when she got in about 20 minutes later. Life was good.
 
I find that when I am sitting in the sweet spot with the volume pretty high it sounds acceptable. It's a different story when I move about fifteen feet further away into the next room. It is LOUD! It's makes me wonder how far it can be heard outside when I have the windows open. My neighbors are not that close, but they must be able to hear it I think.
 
luddite said:
Got home from a really hard pressed week of work today, cracked open a bottle, opened a pack of smokes and lit up the Number One stereo setup. Started with a relaxing Haydn album but then switched gears over to Led Zeppelin One, side two, and from the get go decided to push the speakers to possibly damaging volume. They held up. Next was Tijuana Brass, The Lonely Bull track... then Peter Gunn, the theme track... then on to Ellington at Newport, the last long track on side two. I wish my old Dad could have heard it at this volume.
Then wife came in from work and turned down the volume, claiming she could hear all the neighbours slamming their windows shut. She keeps the peace around here, I guess, but it sure is fun before she gets home on Friday.
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Volume control indeed . That's funny Lud.
 
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