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Are there any component CD players/changers out there that don't whine/whir while playing a disc? I've returned two to Fry's and the Harman/Kardon 5-disc changer I got this time is doing it to.

Am I doomed to hate listening to my stereo because of my dog-like ear for high-pitched background noise?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes you are. Never go for multi-changers because there's more mechanisms to whirr. I fucking hate it hate it hate it. Headphones or turning the volume dial clockwise are the answer.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)

God, you people's brains are broken. Are you not able to filter sounds? Can you not follow conversations in crowded rooms? Can you not walk and chew gum?

What do you do if you have to listen to music while driving? Or next to a whirring computer or humming air conditioner?

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Cover the CD player with pillows

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:55 (twenty-two years ago)

There was this soundart installation thing that HSA and I went to see which was basically a large pillow-thing that you were supposed to lie on and it played you music that responded to your moves.

It didn't work, tho. :-( Or perhaps the sound from the other installations overpowered it. And the speakers in the pillow negated its comfy function as a couch.

― kate (kate), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 08:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Listening to msuic while driving is no probs, cos you expect engine noise, etcetera. Even listening to stuff on the walkman (my portable 'phones are open-back) is fine cos you expect the noise (and if you read here you can see that sometimes the noises are really cool and fit the music), but when I am alone, in the dark, having my time with my music with some candles and some wine or whatever, I don't want the quiet bits in "Scum" interfered with by the CD player! FUCKER!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:14 (twenty-two years ago)

md players are worse.
mine makes screeching sounds when its not whirring.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, which is why you put MD players in your pockets to muffle them. My hi-fi MD deck is actually quite quiet. I get the idea my portable one doesn't spin the disc consistently but rather gives it a really hard shove every 30-40 seconds and hopes it plays at the right speed.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Whirring computers also bother me.

But, like Nick said, engine noise and that sort of thing doesn't bother me. Though the lid on my toolbox scrapes when I'm driving on a mediocre road, and that metal-on-metal sound drives me nuts.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

buy a discman, put in in a box, close the box after you put in the cd and hit play.

― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Whirring computers also bother me.

There's a reason I own this:

http://www.frau-und-technik.de/_img/fotos/mac_cube.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

RJG's laptop fan is incredibly loud and crank crank crank sounding. I have no idea how he listens to music on it.

I don't think it's a mac vs. pc. The fans (if they have them) and hard discs on the black Dells we have at work are totally silent, to the extent that it unnerves me.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

In this case, I was referring to the fact that the Cube doesn't in fact have a fan at all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, right. Well yeah, I find it hard to believe these Dells do either. Which I can't believe is a good idea. I have no doubt your cube is so incredibly well designed that it naturally channels Alaskan airstreams.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

And it does so with grace and beauty.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you not follow conversations in crowded rooms?

actually, this is something i find abnormally difficult, even if the person talking to me is right near me. wonder why.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too. Everyone gets pissed off at me when I keep asking them to repeat themselves and then they ask if I am deaf, but I'm not. I can hear quiet things, it's just the filtering that's the problem. My dad is the same.

― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hah, I have that problem, too! (Of course, with me it really is hearing loss.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't the crowded-room problem supposedly tied to ADD/ADHD? Too many inputs to focus on one conversation or something?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a hard enough time concentrating on what someone's saying when there's no other noise!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 16 July 2003 17:43 (twenty-two years ago)

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