The state of Nevada has no statute re: noise in vehicles. It’s up to each city or county to adopt their own noise ordinances, if they so choose.
In 12 years of living in Nevada, I’ve never been pulled over or cited. I did once have a cop ask me if it was Gorgoroth I was listening to, tho (it was).
However, most if not all of the cities do have general noise ordinances, which noise coming out of a vehicle is covered under.
Which means less than nothing. Noise ordinances are so poorly inforced they are on the level of the speeding laws, but it doesn’t make it any less illegal to be pushing too many decibils.
I agree with Jolly Roger. People who crank the volume are ignorant, selfish assholes. And the music always seems to sound like a herd of goats vomiting while someone beats on a 55 gallon drum.
The term for that is trolling.
Is that CD at amazon.com? I’d totally buy that! It would fit in great with my 60 minutes of sounds from a pachinko parlor CD. 
Is it possible, in some remote sense, that the cop was trying to subtly suggest that your music was so loud that s/he recognized it whilst outside your vehicle?
This, from someone who’s got tintanitis in spite of growing up on symphony and folk music. (Okay, I did play in marching band. A glockenspiel isn’t all that loud.)
My hearing – and my perception of noise – was perfect, until I hit 52. Now, the noise inside my own head is annoying. I’d regret my younger “MORE NOISE!” choices, if only that had ever been my choice.
You don’t know how long you’re going to live. And you don’t know what (if any) medical advances will occur to reinstate damaged nerve cells.
I am, in no way, going to suggest that you go conservative on your music… but, on a wholly personal level, you might want to consider (no, seriously: think about it) the long-term consequences of what you’re doing to the noise receptors in your brain.
(Now hitting “submit reply” and walking away before I edit again. I so wish my ears – and brain – worked the way they’re supposed to, and I didn’t do any of the obvious things to damage them!)
I’ll just second what quilter said. I have permanent ringing in my ears, and while most of the time it’s minor enough that I can manage to ignore it, it still basically sucks, and it’s not worth all the loud music I used to love listening to. Until it happens, you cannot imagine how annoying it is to have an Emergency Broadcast Signal tone playing in your eardrums all the fucking time.
Migraines are bodily harm. I feel that if someone gives me a migraine, I should be able to inflict the same amount of pain on them. I know that this is not an acceptable real life solution, though.
I’ve suffered from tinnitus all my life, most likely due my imperfect biology: my ears don’t drain fluid properly, and it backs up behind the eardrum. As I said, I’ve been deaf 3 times in my life. And yeah, the constant “eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” sucks.
No, it isn’t.
Please help me understand something. Do you play your music loudly because of your deafness/tinnitus? Is it not possible that you suffer from deafness/tinnitus because of your choice of loud music?
I don’t care.
I do this… BUT I’m respectful of others. I’ll turn it down at every stoplight (remote control so it’s easy to adjust a lot), or if someone is near me, or if I’m in a neighborhood, or if it is late at night . I tell my buddies to do the same and they think I’m crazy. The freeway is where I usually crank it up the loudest. I have custom installed my sounds so I like to abuse them when I can. I don’t get out to concerts much so this is almost like being right up front.
I agree that it is pretty damn annoying when people do this without regard for others. Most times I do not agree with their music or their setup (trunk rattlers). I feel like an ass when I’m with friends who do this. Especially at stoplights and we’re surrounded by like 20 cars. I’m always getting yelled at trying to adjust the volume so I’ve just given up on it. It’s just one of those things some people have to do while being in their car. The trend of having custom sounds installed has really boosted this.
Why do these companies who make stereos or TVs give you the option of having the volume so fucking loud? I usually never go past 15-20 (should it go up to 50 notches). Is it really necessary for my home TV to have the possibility of being so loud people 2 houses down can hear it? Do people actually cap the volume on these things? I don’t think I’ve ever capped the volume on anything other than one of those little radios or my headphones.
Possible solution to the problem would be to crack down on manufacturers who make products with speakers and set a cap DB on the output. If someone needed something louder they could get a permit for that product. This would include the purchase of amplifiers or anything relative such as large monitor speakers. The police would have to crack down on enforcing the sound law too. I don’t see this happening any time soon.
Well, an easier solution would be for the laws (where they exist) on it to be enforced. In the op I was in a crowded parking lot. This wasn’t the boonies where no one would notice.
I have what is called profound loss of hearing, personally. I hope your enjoyment stops short of that point. On the other hand, I wouldn’t mind if you become totally and completely deaf as a stone as a result of your love of very loud music. It’s really your choice.
The problem with the boonies, though, is that in the absence of general city noise sound tends to carry further, and the chances are that someone will in fact notice. It’s amazing how much and how far sound travels up a valley when you’re sitting on top of a mountain.
The fact is we share this planet with 6 billion other people, and one person’s music is another’s poison. Just because no-one is actively complaining doesn’t necessarily mean everyone is enjoying the music coming from your stereo/instrument.
No matter how well I play Moonlight Sonata, there is sure to be someone somewhere who hates the piano. That’s why I invested in a Clavinova with headphones.
My beef isn’t really with the type pf music though. Its the volume. Moonlight Sonata may not be as jarring when played on a trillion gigawatt car stereo system but it would still be as maddening to others around you. When its something that has so much bass that it is literally shaking parts of the vehicle and people inside of buildings can hear the “THUMP!THUMP!THUMP!” its gone from beyond annoying to plain ridiculous.
They could play my favorite songs loud like that and I’d still think they were morons. The fact that most people that do this seem to like what in my opinion only barely qualifies as music (as in some sort of instrument was used somehow in its production and thats questionable) only makes it worse.
The people that do this are jackasses, plain and simple. There is no real excuse for it.
I don’t understand the preoccupation with having the baddest, loudest, most powerful car stereo and speakers either, unless you plan to go out of your way to annoy people. I can think of a lot of other things I’d spend the money on. There has to be a point when the power of the stereo and speakers doesn’t even make a difference…well, unless you are only using it to pollute the air with your noise. But then I never understood why people by those stupid spinner hubcaps. (When I see them I think the driver is automatically an idiot, no exceptions. I don’t care if it was driven by a nun, those things are beyond idiotic and expensive too)
To the OP, I have something that you will hate even more than the object of your rant. “Guaguas de sonido” (sound trucks) are pickup trucks with huge concert speakers on their bed. They drive day in and day out all over town pumping propaganda at ear splitting levels. Hell is too nice for those assholes and the laws that protect them. It helps their cause a lot that the laws to ban them would have to come from the politicos they are promoting with my tax money.
To those with super cool stereos, a big thumbs up. My brother had one and when we switched cars (he had a pimped Civic, I had a beat up SUV) I loved cranking that stuff up. It was pure quality. Amazing sound.
To the assholes who crank them up in residential areas and at off hours, a big fuck you. I hope you become deaf, mute, blind and break all your fingers.
Who are you and where have you been. Great username and great post.
That’s called projection. But hey, you can always make an ass of yourself and get some people look at you. Enjoy it.
I can agree to an extent about different situations…you do (or should) act differently at work, or when meeting clients, than you would relaxing at home, watching a late night movie.
It may sound corny, but the golden rule still applies, IMO. If you don’t care how you’re treating other people, they won’t give a shit how they treat you. No matter what you do, you’re affecting other people. It may be in big ways (crashing your car into a crowd could be an example of that), sometimes in small ways (just holding a door open for someone else), but just about everything you do affects someone.
Bit of hijack but…,
Well I was gonna cite dictionary to show how you were wrong, but in this case I was wrong.
However a past report and accusation of trolling of another poster by me was infact trolling. By dictionary definition.
I shall keep that cite handy in case it comes up again.