noise pollution bothers anyone?

Does background noises on the street hurt your ears? Newyork is well known to have huge noise pollution. Noise level had been recorded to be well over 120decibles. those noises include jack hammer, car horns, construction noise, car engines noise combined on the street or hwy. I have to plug my ears with foam earplugs because my ears hurt after the end of the day. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon15.gif

/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/icon3.gif Its never really bothered me. I do live next to a main street, and my bed it up agaist the wall that boreders the street. My eyes never hurt though.

I get bothered by noise pollution to the point I sleep with music on at night to raise the sound level up high enough idiots driving down the street with overpowered subwoofers don't wake me up. I sometimes want an EMP device to zot their stereo when they come up near to me in traffic and you can feel the boom boom and you are trying to talk to someone in the car with you.

Oops.

We have all sorts of noise pollution but the worst by far where I live are the airplanes. Since I'm maybe a mile off the glidepath to LaGuardia Airport you'll hear planes constantly for most of the day, and 90 seconds apart during peak hours. Fortunately the double-paned windows on the house keep most of this noise out but it's still a problem when you're outside gardening. Car engines are another source of annoying noise. I can't hear them indoors, but when outside, especially along main thoroughfares, the constant background noise of accelerating cars and buses is extremely annoying (small wonder I'm a big EV advocate). Of course, this being New York, you also have the usual construction noises although that's mostly a Manhattan thing. Get rid of the noise from planes and motor vehicles and I'll be happy enough. The only time it gets relatively peaceful is when you have a big snowstorm where the planes are grounded and almost nobody drives. The air smells better, too.

Ain't nothing better than driving an EV out on a quiet country road with the windows down. Riding a bicycle comes close, but my Rav is quieter. Seriously. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

the noise bothers me a geeat deal. It affects my health significantly. If my ears are exposed to it for 1hr, my hearing shut down like a server crashing down. I need at least 3hrs for my hearing to recovered because I hear mostly buzzing sound in my ear cannals as if thousands of bees flying in there. My doc checked my ears but he said it is ok. My doc is evidently is wrong. My ears hurts with excruticating pain when my hearing is shut down.

I was at the Ramada next to Shea Stadium Tuesday. Quiteter there than the Hotels across the street from LaGuardia where I usually stay. I even walked under the EL by the Stadium and did not flinch at the trains. Guess I'm an honorary New Yorker now?

My parakeet has an issue with noise pollution. He freaks out when I play my guitar /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif I'm in a rural area that happens to be on either side of the night runway approach to Indianaplolis International (about ten miles out). When the skies are overcast and they cheat the 600 foot level, he freaks out about two minutes before I can hear the plane.

The only road noise that annoys me seems to be the roar of the wind thru the open driver's door window. I usually keep that one up and the others down when it is not so hot and humid that I have to run the AC.

I live in the dorms so I've gotten used to it. The only time we can get it quiet is when there are finals, because there are maditory quiet hours to let people study.

I wish there was an electronic device that would create a soundproof wall or dome around the user. Sort of like those noise-cancelling headphones, only you wouldn't need the headphones.

Anyone who could invent that would get rich fast.

Office geese and ducks.

That's what it sounds like to me most of the time.

Quack, quack, quack. The mindless honkings of the non-producing, non-talents. Many of them move slowly and waddle whilst quacking the day away.

What are they quacking about? Not about science or art; I can assure you. Usually the subject is what some other office goose or duck was honking or quacking about yesterday.

They are quacking by the entryway when I come in. They are quacking in the halls. They are quacking, quacking everywhere trying to drive me up the walls!

HE HATES CROWS!!

YES! I hate it when people are trying to talk over my loud music./ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nana.gif


I like the "office ducks" analogy. They DO waddle, don't they. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crackup.gif

And remote car locks that beep the horn!!

I bought a noise meter, and found that alot of the "loud noises" like the business jets taking off were quieter than I thought.

The TV is usually set around 60db. A loud car in the street hits 65 to 70. One of the business jets hit 85db.

Noise does not bother me too much. 25 years of working in rooms full of relays, computers, chillers, etc have pretty much blasted my hearing.

If you have tinitus and hearing loss you should see a specialist... a neurologist will look for brain based problems.

Daniel

TV and radio noise bug me - I can't listen to these ambiently for longer than 30 minutes before my eye starts to twitch and and I scramble for the power buttons.

I live on one of those wasteful one acre parcels that someone (JTR????) posted about in another thread about 6 months ago. It's surprisingly quiet here. The lower background level makes sonic events more pronounced. Sometimes I literally can hear a dog barking a mile away. Imagine how annoying the dog(s) can be in the adjacent acre parcel.... Oddly enough, ghetto blasters are a problem. A car alarm can heard for miles.
i wish I had 40 acres instead of one.
I'll shut up now.

The noise that bothers me the most is the totally unnecessary noise that is made on purpose for no benefit to anyone. I am thinking about cars modified to make more engine noise or the car stereos that can be heard blocks away. Or some yahoo who gets the bright idea to blow off fireworks at 3am in the middle of a quite residential neighborhood with working people and young children trying to sleep. I have news for those people. Your noise does not make you cool. It does not make people like you.

Aircraft noise and construction noise: it can be bad, but at least it has a purpose and nobody is trying to make it louder than it has to be.

I seem to have always been maybe more consious of noises than some. Concentration is tough in noisy places. Way back in school, I had to find an empty classroom for serious study, as the dormitory was way too chaotic. I wish I had the ability to block out background noises. On the other hand, I'll notice changes in mechanical noises, which can be good.

Geoff

Being and audio engineer by trade I can't stand loud noises. I don't know if it's just me but I can hear sounds start to distort at higher volumes. Take a bar for instance with loud music playing. While I am good at picking out individual voices I hate it. I have no idea why they turn up the music so loud and then people sit around and try to talk. Drives me nuts. Thanks goodness I live 20 miles from town. Waves hitting the beach and wind in the trees is all I usually hear.