Electronics for - loud music blocker -

Over-the-ear like this?

Those will go with something like this:

If it's in a strip mall steel building ( aren't they all? ) all they have to do is hang a number of baffles - long rectangles of cloth with a ( clothes-hanger-rod sized) dowel to weight it.

If it's hurting my ears, I would ask. But it's usually the crowd that makes the noise, not the jukebox, and I can't ask the management to turn them down.

If it hurts my ears, it probably hurts theirs, too.

If nobody complains, how's the barkeep to know it's too loud?

Tell them it's too loud, then leave.

No, Bluetooth.

No, like the first one, except Bluetooth.

But that doesn't get rid of the cord. I'm looking for something to use when working outside (cutting grass, particularly). I have a set of over-the-ear Bluetooth headphones but they're not noise canceling an not even well isolated. I'd have to crank my iPod's volume past 11 to hear everything.

TNT does wonders

Jamie

"WHAT?!!"

On Sun, 01 May 2016 18:21:50 -0700, John Larkin Gave us:

They are not jet engines and you are not standing right in front of the drivers.

Make up some more stupid s*it, stupid s*it.

That doesn't always work. I know of one place where the employees are instructed to turn UP the music if the tables are not being turned over fast enough. The last thing they want is for patrons to continue to chat after dinner while people are waiting for seating.

In many cities/counties, the noise regulations only cover noises produced or heard off the property. For example, Santa Cruz county limits noise to 60 dB(A) at the property line: That's not very useful for limiting noise inside a business establishment.

Long ago, I was a member of a group that met at a local bar. The food was good but the seating limited. So, the manager would crank up the music in order to improve the turnover. One time, he turned it up as soon as we arrived, which I thought was a bit much. The next time we met, I brought along my then new Radio Shock sound level meter: and a printed SPL chart. I turned it on, waved it around so the manager could see it, put it back on the table, and waited. Eventually, he came over and asked about the meter. I mumbled something about checking the noise level to see if it was legal and safe. At the time, I had no idea if there were any maximum noise level regulations, what limits there might be, or what was considered safe. He turned down the music but it was still to loud. After one more noisy meeting, we found a non-alcoholic establishment that was more suitable and meeting friendly.

You laugh, but I've been there, done that! I had no Internet access at one home for a long time. I had to go somewhere to use wi-fi and the closest place as a little country store/deli/gas station that had some booths. But I was right under the TV! I bought some drug store ear plugs, the foam type and they work ok if you seat them in good.

Then WISP came to town (or country) and I was saved! I did get to meet a whole different slice of life there while using the net. I met a bunch of people who were exactly the folks Obamacare was intended to help, but they hated it with a passion... even though they had no idea what was. I explained to one that it was insurance and she said, "Well, that's not so bad!" Another guy had no medical care because he had been laid off and couldn't afford the COBRA premiums, at that time just $300 a month. He was then injured and couldn't work at all and couldn't afford the medical care. I recall he was totally opposed to taking any money from the government as if that would be a crime.

Lol! One problem I've never seen any restaurant care about is the noise. It's like traffic at the mall, a sign of success, at least that's how they see it. They have bigger problems than your hearing.

I have one of those. It works pretty well and is fun to use. I played a prank on a neighbor turning the TV off just once in a while. They took months to catch on. lol

The thing eats batteries even when not being used. It think it has separate power for the LEDs and the CPU and they don't kill power to the CPU, but that's just a guess. It was years ago that I took it apart and I don't remember for sure what the circuit was.

I found schematics and even code for it. When I bought mine they made it clear the design including the collection of TV codes were protected by patent. But at some point the designer relented and went open source with it. So now you can build your own and source code is provided! I see one of the software versions even has a fix for the battery drain problem.

On Mon, 2 May 2016 01:40:10 -0400, rickman Gave us:

They care here in Virginia. One complaint and the piggery show up with a "sound level meter", which I consider to be very arbitrary. If you are over what *they* say the number is, you get cited. One bar got cited just a few weeks ago here. It is really pathetic.

"Yes you can have a live band, but no the noise level cannot even be as loud as the garage bands back in the sixties were."

On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:36:51 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

The most common request is, in fact, to turn it up, and the reason it was down is usually due to a ball game of one type or another.

On Mon, 2 May 2016 02:36:51 -0700 (PDT), snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com Gave us:

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hehehe an airborne trip

You left out the word airborne.

don't you just buy a set of noise canceling headphones? (they get you about 20 db in sound reduction)

IME most patrons of a restaurant (this is piped-in popular music, not a jukebox) don't notice or mind the loudness. They just talk louder. When it is loud enough to annoy me and I ask the waiter to turn it down a tad, the entire time I'm there there's apparently no request to turn it up again.

I find that the music is turned up to entertain not the patrons but the employees -- who hate being there and loud music is their way of "zoning out" and making more bearable the crawling hands of the clock.

Don't do bars, so don't know how this differs.

This one?

or much smaller:

There are also smartphone apps that do the same thing:

Ah, the sound of silence...