Americans must be going deaf

Either that or retailers and other business have some ulterior motives for increasing the volume. The background music in some stores is getting to be like going into a night club. And night clubs are getting to be like going to a rock concert.

 

Between retailers, movie sound systems, and MP3 players they'll all be deaf by the age of 40


Hotwater

 

What did you say?

 

I never liked loud music, and the last time I used headphones for such a thing was when I was a teen and it was a walkman. :biggrin:
So my hearing is fine.

 

If its too loud you're too old

:biggrin:

 

I have been hard of hearing since I was eight, so I have not noticed a discernible difference in volume.

 

I don't think the music in retail stores are too loud as much as it's just annoying to listen to. Night clubs on the other hand I completely agree with. You have to scream your head off into somebody's ear just so they can just barely hear you.

 

Hotwater

 

I actually think concerts are less loud than they use to be (could be that my hearing is shot from all the heavy metal shows I went to as an adolescent). Movie theatres in the U.S. are ridiculously loud, and I'm starting to notice the increased volume in stores. I never have been able to tolerate clubs for more than an hour, and the nice little pubs I used to frequent to actually have conversations in are getting almost as bad. People in general are just getting fucking louder.

 

i really hate a lot of bars around here who can't decide whether to be a pub or a club, and end up being either a club with no room to dance or bars where you have to shout to have a conversation. i guess they're conscious of catering to pre-lash crowds, but sitting in a pub with your mates you don't wanna haveta listen to thumping dance music, its just the wrong tone.

 

What I really hate is when you're watching tv at a perfectly reasonable volume and then the commercials come on and it's deafening. That shit is supposed to be illegal now but I don't think advertisers care.

Movie theatres are way too loud too. I don't go to movies anymore.

 

^^ was just about to say TV ads..... those are crazy

 

My ears are going on me. Too many concerts without protection, now I have a new lifetime friend called Tinnitus. I use ear plugs at gigs now, wish I had a long time ago.

 

And you're un-American.

There are some who argue that establishments deliberately play music loud to attract the younger groups and repel the older ones.

 

Here's a story that covers some of the various reasons for retails places using loud music.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/20/n...noise-goes-unabated.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

 

From that news story. Buy anything and lets get out of here quickly.



"At the Abercrombie flagship on a recent afternoon, a preteen girl plunged wide-eyed into the darkness as loud beats poured from dozens of speakers. Her mother and her grandmother trailed her. The grandmother, Nancy Hilem, 56, of Bucks County, Pa., said they had been in the shop 10 minutes but it felt as if it had been an hour because of the noise. Normally calm — she works at a funeral parlor — Ms. Hilem found herself jumpy.
“I can’t concentrate,” she said. “I can’t focus on what I want to buy because of the noise. I want to say to her, ‘Just find something, I’ll buy anything, let’s just get out!’ ”
"

 

Oh.. I don't believe that works.. not at all. If anything having music up too loud would reject a customer's entry. No way in the world I'm believing loud music attracts quick sales.

 

Some argue that louder faster tempo music in restaurants makes people eat faster and leave the table sooner, clearing valuable real estate for the next customers.

 

I can't stand to listen to loud music or television. Unless I'm at a concert, of course. My dad has to be going deaf because when he watches tv you can hear it all throughout the house. It's so annoying. I like a calm low volume.

 

I'm actually hard of hearing. I have an hearing aid and everything, although I haven't worn it in nearly a decade. I can't hear anybody...ever. Oh also, I haven't been to a night club/dance club in half a decade, and I mostly like to shop on amazon.