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Mulegena
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Yeah, but aren't those cones big'unz???
Hijalo, Vato!!
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Bajahowodd
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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.
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BMG
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If it's too loud, you're too old.
(I guess I'm too old.)
I think the world is run by C- students.
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rpleger
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How about those public announcement trucks,cars that drive around trying to say something important in between two to three seconds of music.
Richard on the Hill
*ABROAD*, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to
be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.
-- Ambrose Bierce, _The Enlarged Devil\'s Dictionary_
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Martyman
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You gotta have the subs in the trunk. Get hip man!
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CaboRon
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| Quote: | 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.
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They are funny 
Some of them have six or eight mis-matched speakers ...
All of them with blown cones ....
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Udo
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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.
Udo
Youth is wasted on the young!
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tjBill
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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]
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Bwana_John
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If you think Mexican Music is too loud, you should try Scottish Music
Preferably during massed pipebands.
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Barry A.
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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
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DENNIS
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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.
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vgabndo
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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.
Undoubtedly, there are people who cannot afford to give the anchor of sanity even the slightest tug. Sam Harris
"The situation is far too dire for pessimism."
Bill Kauth
Carl Sagan said, "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
PEACE, LOVE AND FISH TACOS
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Mexitron
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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!
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bajabound2005
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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...
Friends don't let friends drink white zinfandel.
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Dave
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Fighting fire with fire
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.
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Bajahowodd
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So sorry to hear you have Bose speakers.
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Dave
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So were my neighbors
| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
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Bwana_John
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| Quote: | | 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.
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Cypress
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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.
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Packoderm
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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.
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