Now, I realize that some types of music are considered inherently “louder” than others, but what I’m mainly asking in this thread is whether you like music that is turned up loud, such as you might find in a dance club or similar location. So, how loud is too loud for you?
Personally, I find it extremely annoying and uncomfortable, and I can think of few environments less appealing to me for social interaction. I normally listen to music at about the volume of a normal conversation or less (but louder if there is some other noise I am trying to block out). However, I would be interested in the opinions of those of you who like (or at least tolerate) louder levels of music.
It depends on the type of music. I like to hear music close to its natural volume, if I were hearing it live. I can’t listen to, say, an opera with the volume turn all the way down.
No, I don’t. I don’t like the music at dances or club/bar type situations, I don’t like it in people’s cars, I don’t like hearing other people’s music coming out of their rooms… I don’t even like it when I go to Mass and the organist has everything turned up to eleven. When I listen to ballets that have super-loud bits and then parts so quiet they’re almost inaudible unless you turn the volume way up, I keep my hand on the volume button the whole time to turn them up and down.
I already know I’m prematurely geezing (get off my lawn! where are my false teeth?), but I’m also pretty introverted- I like quiet, but not silence, in general. And the other part of it is that I’m (increasingly, but that’s for another thread) prone to bad headaches made worse by, among other things, loud noises.
All noise irritates me, especially bass that vibrates through my body, or is at just at the lowest register of my hearing. There’s nothing that gets me riled up faster.
It really depends. At a dance club, I don’t mind because the sound system is usually good. What annoys me are bar jukeboxes which are turned up very loud and the music just sounds distorted.
I have to remember to bring earplugs to jazz concerts that may be amplified too much. I enjoy jazz, but only at moderate levels. There are some very good restaurants that I avoid because the noise level is too high. I wonder if the management does something to enhance that effect since other restaurants are relativel quiet even when full.
I like loud music in my car, and I like loud music when I’m at work (I bartend) later in the evening.
I don’t like it to be so loud you have to shout over it–not dance club loud–but it should be loud enough so that peoples’ conversations are not audible to anyone but each other. I like the atmosphere this creates…a pleasant, busy, happy bar.
Earlier in the day, during happy hour etc., I like it a lot lower.
But the music in my car is always pretty loud, unless I have passengers.
I will say that when I’m at work, nobody has ever asked me to turn the music down…but there are always people who ask me to turn it up. Some people just can’t hear their favorite music loud enough. It’s slightly odd.
I generally say no. Not everybody loves freakin’ Nickelback as much as you do. :dubious:
I spent a lot of time in front of the speakers at Dead shows so my hearing isn’t very sensitive anymore. I love loud music as long as I get to pick what it is but anything else loud annoys me a lot. One of my pet peeves is how commercials blast on with a much higher volume than what I was watching so that I have to keep hitting the mute button. I have no close neighbors and when no one is home I play music so loud that the windows rattle.
No. Especially when it’s my neighbours playing it, but no in any case. Unless I’m trying to drown someone out, but then I’m usually using a headset, making ‘loud’ still fairly quiet.
How loud is too loud? If I can physically feel the music (either directly or through another object–say, the couch), it’s too loud.
In all gathering places for single people, music should be loud enough to impede so-called intelligent conversation. This keeps intellectuals, nerds, and other socially unfit types from finding one another and having the chance to breed.
And so far, by Og, it looks like it’s working admirably.
I have always hated anything too loud. Loud crowds, loud music, etc. My friends used to make fun of me for saying that it made me physically ill. I won’t even go anywhere where it is going to be too loud anymore.
In social situations - no. I want to be able to converse with people, not just shout and gesture. I hate nightclubs, and that’s one of the main reasons.
Seeing a band - yes, though I have been at gigs where it was too loud. Much though I love classical music - and I do - it doesn’t compare to the force of amplified rock music. A really good loud rock band is a wonderful physical experience. It’s intoxicating. Of course, a bad rock bad at high volume is appalling…
It depends. I can’t stand loud dance music in clubs, but then I can’t stand most of the music played in dance clubs even at a background level. Most modern pop and rock is so compressed to sound “loud” that it has no dynamic range - there is no point in playing it loud. On the other hand, some music does have a wide dynamic range, and it’s worth playing loud in order for the quiet bits to be heard and the loud bits to have impact.
Loud! I like it loud! Rattle the windows, shake the floor, <<vibrate>> through my body!
I’m not fond of having to shout to have conversations, though. I prefer quieter bars if I’m with a group that’s doing sit-down drinking and talking rather than dancing.
Bass that’s so deep I can feel it rather than hear it makes me horny.
I think I do. Not ear-splitting just for the heck of it, but I like getting immersed in music and having it take over my brain - it speeds up my activities and helps keep me from getting bored. I actually really hate it when I’m listening to music and my SO turns it down to talk to me, because I had it at the volume where I could hear every layer of music clearly, and I could hear him fine when it was louder. But, I try not to get upset about it, knowing that sometimes he can’t hear me.
