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Whats with the blaring distored noise?

Mulegena - 5-21-2009 at 10:58 PM

Yeah, but aren't those cones big'unz???

Hijalo, Vato!!

Bajahowodd - 5-21-2009 at 11:38 PM

Kicker boxes in the trunk know no country of origin. I have a daughter with a significant hearing impairment because she grew up in the 80's.

BMG - 5-22-2009 at 07:10 AM

If it's too loud, you're too old.


(I guess I'm too old.)

rpleger - 5-22-2009 at 07:47 AM

How about those public announcement trucks,cars that drive around trying to say something important in between two to three seconds of music.

Martyman - 5-22-2009 at 07:47 AM

You gotta have the subs in the trunk. Get hip man!

CaboRon - 5-22-2009 at 08:04 AM

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Originally posted by rpleger
How about those public announcement trucks,cars that drive around trying to say something important in between two to three seconds of music.


They are funny :lol::lol:

Some of them have six or eight mis-matched speakers ...

All of them with blown cones .... :lol:

Udo - 5-22-2009 at 08:16 AM

When I move to Baja, i'm bringing my huge Pioneer amp and pre-amp plus 4 ea. 32" tall speakers. Each has several speakers, including a 16" subwoofer. This the old analog amp. You have not heard loud music until these are fired up. They have not been fully fired up for 15+ years, but if they want a noise contest, they will have messed with the wrong guy.

tjBill - 5-22-2009 at 08:27 AM

Yes, I find the noise tolerance quite high in Mexico. Although it seems the more expensive the neigborhood you're in the more quiet things become.

[Edited on 5-22-2009 by tjBill]

Bwana_John - 5-22-2009 at 08:49 AM

If you think Mexican Music is too loud, you should try Scottish Music:biggrin:

Preferably during massed pipebands.:lol:

Barry A. - 5-22-2009 at 08:50 AM

Perhaps it is to cover up the gunfire noise?? (kidding, just kidding, really)

-------I too have always been curious about that, but I must admit I kinda enjoy it when in Mexico------it is part of the experience, and most of it is good and exciting (or at least it was 30+ years ago) Yeeeeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaa!!!!!

Barry

DENNIS - 5-22-2009 at 09:06 AM

I've always thought that Mexicans were inherently half deaf. The other half is influenced by the "gracious and tolerant" aspect of the culture. It would be insulting, rude and insensitive to tell one's neighbor to turn down his raucous radio. It could also lead to a major misunderstanding of regretable proportions. Don't want that.

vgabndo - 5-22-2009 at 11:57 AM

Speaking of bagpipes, how on earth does a person know when it is time to have them TUNED?

My favorite "sound truck" was a few years ago when a gawd-awful racket was heard approaching the little fishing village of San Nicolas coming down the slow washboard road. The truck tooled once through the single road of "town" and returned from whence it had come. The entire time a garbled jingle at ear-splitting volume was repeating something like VOTA PACO YEE, VOTA PACO YEE, VOTA PACO YEE. In my neighborhood there were nearly universal wry smiles and slowing shaking heads! Aklll that for a couple dozen votes, MAYBE.

Mexitron - 5-22-2009 at 12:22 PM

It is true and don't know why many Mexicanos can listen to music, or even talking, turned up past the point of distortion...what I thought was funny though was my fellow worker from Puebla shouting over the blaring Mexican music in our truck cab how his kids drive him crazy at home with all their loud music!

bajabound2005 - 5-22-2009 at 01:04 PM

We avoid the stores with the music blaring outside the door. You can't even talk to anyone around those places! Imagine dropping by the Ford dealer in Ensenada to buy a car and trying to work out a deal with that blaring music...

Fighting fire with fire

Dave - 5-22-2009 at 01:19 PM

I have a professional sound system. 8 Bose 801's & crown amps. Used to have neighbors who would keep me up half the night racing their sand rails on the beach and playing music at mega decibels. Tried to reason with them but all I got was, "This is Mexico and we can do what ever we want."

I set up the system on the upper deck, pointed directly at their casa and waited until early morning. Cranked it up to 11 and played revellie followed by the Star Spangled Banner. They stumbled out shouting something I unfortunately couldn't hear. Later that day there was a knock at my door. We came to an agreement.

Turns out that in Mexico, you can't do anything you want.

Bajahowodd - 5-22-2009 at 01:35 PM

So sorry to hear you have Bose speakers.:(

So were my neighbors

Dave - 5-22-2009 at 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by Bajahowodd
So sorry to hear you have Bose speakers.:(

Bwana_John - 5-22-2009 at 02:21 PM

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Speaking of bagpipes, how on earth does a person know when it is time to have them TUNED?

Bagpipes need to be constantly tuned. As you play them the mositure in your breath softens the cane reeds which change in pitch as they hydrate. The amount of mositure in the wood also affects the tone.
That is why they must be played everyday, if the reeds and wood and bag drys out it takes a while to restabilize the water content in everything.
Scotland is a damp place, the desert is hell on pipes.

Cypress - 5-22-2009 at 02:21 PM

Noise? Depends upon the taste of the hear'er. If you don't like the music, it's noise, turn it off, if you like it, turn up the volume.:D

Packoderm - 5-22-2009 at 03:46 PM

It's good to have high powered amps, subwoofers and all that, but to really cut through you need to include horn loudspeakers like found on marine public address systems on yachts. You also need to choose some music that will cut through the competing music source. For that, I recommend Joyce: http://joyce.ytmnd.com/ It is possible to use this repeating loop straight from this source.

joyce

CaboRon - 5-22-2009 at 07:24 PM

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Packoderm - 5-22-2009 at 07:49 PM

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Originally posted by CaboRon
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No way

oldlady - 5-22-2009 at 07:53 PM

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Originally posted by Dave
I have a professional sound system. 8 Bose 801's & crown amps. Used to have neighbors who would keep me up half the night racing their sand rails on the beach and playing music at mega decibels. Tried to reason with them but all I got was, "This is Mexico and we can do what ever we want."

I set up the system on the upper deck, pointed directly at their casa and waited until early morning. Cranked it up to 11 and played revellie followed by the Star Spangled Banner. They stumbled out shouting something I unfortunately couldn't hear. Later that day there was a knock at my door. We came to an agreement.

Turns out that in Mexico, you can't do anything you want.


We also found this process to be effective, but we chose the 1812 Overture...less nationalistic.

vgabndo - 5-22-2009 at 08:41 PM

Being sort of Wagnerian, I love the smell of frying amps in the morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSKL5E3zSjs

osoflojo - 5-22-2009 at 09:29 PM

Loud music? Al the more reason to drink heavily.................

Pops - 5-22-2009 at 10:39 PM

In Mexico and probably elsewhere.....

It doesn't have to be good as long as it's LOUD!!!!!
:o:?::lol::lol:

rogerj1 - 5-23-2009 at 11:17 PM

Sounds like a good question for the "Ask a Mexican" column.

http://www.askamexican.net/

twogringos - 5-24-2009 at 06:59 AM

It looks like Mexico City had recognized the problem.
From The News:


City aims to curb its cacophony

BY NACHA CATTAN

The News

Mexico City's government is embarking on a campaign to turn down the volume of blasting speakers, honking horns and other sources of noise pollution that have left some residents at their wits end.

On Friday, a team of environmental officials measured decibel levels at businesses, stands and roving carts in the Centro Histórico, where they warned noisemakers of fines and arrests for those who exceed the sound limit.

The next stage will begin in early June, when the city installs noise monitors throughout the Centro to keep permanent tabs on those who raise a racket and begin fining them, city prosecutor Luis Genaro Vásquez told The News.

The pilot program will then be extended to other parts of the city, where sellers may face fines of up to 250,000 pesos and up to 8 years in prison for exceeding limits of 65 decibels during the day and 62 at night and early morning.

The first of three surprise visits in the downtown area revealed that 90 percent of 70 businesses measured had surpassed limits by 10 decibels, the city said.

"A trend has caught on all over the Centro in which stores set up speakers outside their shops to draw customers in," Vásquez said. "It has become the noisiest neighborhood in the city."

While noisy stores may be shut down as early as June 1, there are no plans to arrest anyone yet, Vásquez added.

"It is important that owners and managers of commercial establishments in the Centro know how high noise levels affect peoples' health," City Hall said in a statement Friday. "They can cause stress, irritability and anxiety, which can lead to raised blood pressure, cholesterol and heart rates."

Residents weary of noise pollution welcomed the measure, but doubted that the permanent din churned out by daily life in the capital could be diminished.

"If they can't even get the garbage collection in order, how will they control the noise?" said pharmacist Raúl Camacho from the Alvaro Obregón borough.

TAKING OUT THE NOISE MAPS

Having lived in the city all his life, Camacho, 65, said he can handle most any tumult, with one big exception: He shakes with fury when microbuses blast their music on his route home.

"It's not even good music," he said. "It's full of curse words."

Noisy vehicles and street-sellers have been a feature of Mexico City life for decades. As early as 7 a.m. one can hear the bellowing from hawkers of propane gas, tamales and bottled water, the clanking cowbell of the garbage truck and the blaring music of a variety shop promoting its trinkets.

"We are permanently exceeding noise levels," Diana Ponce Nava, the city's environment prosecutor, said at a press conference last week.

The city will employ noise maps drawn up in 2007 based on citizen complaints to pinpoint problem areas, Ponce Nava said.

But some of the biggest noise generators said that if the city indeed enforces a 2006 ordinance that would prohibit them for raising their voices, they would be out of a job.

Juan Carlos Hernández walks the streets in the Azcapotzalco borough each morning at 7:30 shouting: "Gaaaaaaas!" He delivers propane tanks to residents, while dodging occasional pails of water thrown at him by irate neighbors.

"How else are we supposed to get people's attention?" he asked. "Use sign language?"

http://www.thenews.com.mx/home/tnhome.asp?cve_home=1573

BMG - 5-24-2009 at 07:14 AM

Interesting article. I wonder why businesses think blaring music attracts customers to their store? Or does it?

Udo - 5-24-2009 at 07:21 AM

It's kinda like the night clubs. They attract patrons to their places by playing the loudest music. The louder the music the better the party...or so they think.

Loud

tehag - 5-24-2009 at 07:29 AM

Some kids were trying to de-crackle some trunk blasters in a funky old car that was worth probably half what the speakers went for back when they were new. I hollered to the kid in charge that those things were going to wreck his hearing. He turned a big grin on me and said, "Huh?"

BajaDove - 5-24-2009 at 07:36 AM

Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC

BMG - 5-24-2009 at 07:40 AM

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Originally posted by BajaDove
Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC


Do you mean that thumping I feel in my chest from the bass? Kinda feels like CPR.

lingililingili - 5-24-2009 at 09:19 AM

I have a question: Why is it that neither the movie feature on camera nor the phone pick up that awful thumping noise? Do they filter it out?

The Gull - 5-24-2009 at 10:17 AM

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Originally posted by BMG
Quote:
Originally posted by BajaDove
Seems everyone is hung up on listening YOU HAVE TO FEEL THE MUSIC


Do you mean that thumping I feel in my chest from the bass? Kinda feels like CPR.


It may save your life.

tjBill - 5-24-2009 at 05:15 PM

Its good that Mexico City is fighting noise pollution. They seem to be following cities like Madrid, Rome and Paris. Both Paris and Rome have completly banned the use of horns.

If only Tijuana would fight noise pollution.:?: