gloom
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Background: I'm a senior in college. I live in a 4 bedroom apartment with three friends. We're on the third floor, and my window overlooks the (very busy) 4 lane road about 100 feet behind our apartment building.
I need quiet to listen. I believe my hearing is still pretty sensitive - my Sony D-25S drives my HD580 to painful volumes even at 0 volume or from the line out. Luckily, someone here pointed me toward a cheap inline volume control from Radio Shack; this must have the world's crappiest potentiometer, though, because at my preferred listening level, the sound is unbalanced (and it's not just my hearing, because I've flipped the headphones around and the louder side definitely changed).
My problem: I can't get any quiet.
Road noise is always present during the day. It tapers off by midnight, so it's quieter then, but that doesn't leave much time for listening, because I try to sleep enough, and I like to go to bed quite early.
My computer is also quite loud, though it's only got two fans (one in the PSU, one on the heatsink). My CPU is a lowly P3-650, so I bought a fairly quiet HSF (Thermaltake Golden Orb). I also got a case that was supposed to be on the quieter side (Palo Alto ATCX). I most want to listen when I'm at my computer, writing or web browsing or rendering.
At least my flatmates are very considerate, and never play loud music or make much noise. Sometimes the TV gets a little loud, but we're usually watching together, so I don't care about that.
The situation is a little better with my V6, but the sound is rather coarse and I don't enjoy it as much, or for long periods of time. I can still hear road and computer noise, but it's less intrusive and more tolerable.
The worst part is, as stated above, that I'm in college, and thus pretty poor all the time. This means I can't afford a pair of ER4S. I have substantial (~$1k) credit card debt, but plenty of free space on the card, so I might just spring for a pair anyway... argh.
Well, I feel a little better now that I've typed all this, but I still can't listen to my HD580 as I want to, because it's early afternoon and the cars are out in force
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I need quiet to listen. I believe my hearing is still pretty sensitive - my Sony D-25S drives my HD580 to painful volumes even at 0 volume or from the line out. Luckily, someone here pointed me toward a cheap inline volume control from Radio Shack; this must have the world's crappiest potentiometer, though, because at my preferred listening level, the sound is unbalanced (and it's not just my hearing, because I've flipped the headphones around and the louder side definitely changed).
My problem: I can't get any quiet.
Road noise is always present during the day. It tapers off by midnight, so it's quieter then, but that doesn't leave much time for listening, because I try to sleep enough, and I like to go to bed quite early.
My computer is also quite loud, though it's only got two fans (one in the PSU, one on the heatsink). My CPU is a lowly P3-650, so I bought a fairly quiet HSF (Thermaltake Golden Orb). I also got a case that was supposed to be on the quieter side (Palo Alto ATCX). I most want to listen when I'm at my computer, writing or web browsing or rendering.
At least my flatmates are very considerate, and never play loud music or make much noise. Sometimes the TV gets a little loud, but we're usually watching together, so I don't care about that.
The situation is a little better with my V6, but the sound is rather coarse and I don't enjoy it as much, or for long periods of time. I can still hear road and computer noise, but it's less intrusive and more tolerable.
The worst part is, as stated above, that I'm in college, and thus pretty poor all the time. This means I can't afford a pair of ER4S. I have substantial (~$1k) credit card debt, but plenty of free space on the card, so I might just spring for a pair anyway... argh.
Well, I feel a little better now that I've typed all this, but I still can't listen to my HD580 as I want to, because it's early afternoon and the cars are out in force