I outright know my hearing is unusually sensitive, though it's more an annoyance than good for anything. Other people breathing hard or flipping pages in a book is loud enough to disrupt hearing audio at my preferred levels, and traffic on the highway that is a good mile away even at its closest approach. Sadly, I seem to have a poor sense of musical pitch even so, with the only difference I ever noticed between no-brand dollar store headphones and a big, beefy, $100 cups-fit-around-the-ears-not-on-them headset from Koss being how well the latter excluded those outside sounds... and then my own breathing was the problem. D'oh.
Nowadays I either have audio running through some noughties- or possibly even nineties-vintage PC speakers with the Creative Labs logo on them, or a $10 no-brand headset off Amazon, that sounds good enough to me but squeezes a little tight and is on-ear, so after a while it gets a little painful from the physical pressure. Still a critical bit of PPE in this time of viral isolation, when I like turning the speed on talking-heads videos (as in chatter, not the band) up to 1.5x because the data bandwidth on spoken words is so damn low, which gets right on Dad's nerves.
His own musical preferences are no less annoying to me, along with being deaf enough that when he can hear something clearly it's (no metaphor or hyperbole) causing me physical pain, so he actually got the first pair - doesn't seem to mind how tight they fit despite wearing a bigger hat size than I do, either. I can still hear his garbo music if I don't have mine on as well, but at least now it's an option. Those dang geezers and their noise!
Nowadays I either have audio running through some noughties- or possibly even nineties-vintage PC speakers with the Creative Labs logo on them, or a $10 no-brand headset off Amazon, that sounds good enough to me but squeezes a little tight and is on-ear, so after a while it gets a little painful from the physical pressure. Still a critical bit of PPE in this time of viral isolation, when I like turning the speed on talking-heads videos (as in chatter, not the band) up to 1.5x because the data bandwidth on spoken words is so damn low, which gets right on Dad's nerves.
His own musical preferences are no less annoying to me, along with being deaf enough that when he can hear something clearly it's (no metaphor or hyperbole) causing me physical pain, so he actually got the first pair - doesn't seem to mind how tight they fit despite wearing a bigger hat size than I do, either. I can still hear his garbo music if I don't have mine on as well, but at least now it's an option. Those dang geezers and their noise!
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus