- Target:
- Federal Government
- Region:
- Australia
How often do you find yourself, namely on public transport, being subjected to the incessantly irritating popping and hissing streaming from peoples' headphones as you try to read, nap, or just sit in quiet peace? I find it regular happens, almost during every train-ride.
Even if the music is of a favoured variety, something you would ordinarily listen to, and it's even up so loud that you can hear it well defined, and also you even feel like listening to that type of music, it is unpleasant. It is the subjection that I am opposed to – the breach of my space; not my physical space, but my personal, sound space.
I am petitioning that the Government impose restrictions on not the internal volume of sound in headphones – as that is an individual choice – but the external noise resonating through airwaves to impose on others – the sign of cheap manufacturing, which only exacerbates the imposition (along with deafness, but that is another matter) and a perpetual increase in sound volume. The only way to reduce this is to have legislation that imposes a maximum external sound release on all headphone gear, enforced by simple manufacturer testing.
Please join me if you find yourself ever frustrated by this seemingly pedantic, but real, and real-frustrating occurrence.
How often do you find yourself, namely on public transport, being subjected to the incessantly irritating popping and hissing streaming from peoples' headphones as you try to read, nap, or just sit in quiet peace? I find it regular happens, almost during every train-ride.
Even if the music is of a favoured variety, something you would ordinarily listen to, and it's up even become so loud that you can hear it well defined, and feel like listening to that certain type of music, it is unpleasant. It is the subjection that I am opposed to – the breach of my space; not my physical space, but my personal, sound space.
I am petitioning that the Government impose restrictions on not the internal volume of sound in headphones, but the external noise resonating through to impose on others – the sign of cheap manufacturing, which exacerbated the imposition (along with deafness, but that is another matter) and a perpetual increase in sound volume. The only way to reduce this is to have legislation that imposes a maximum external sound release on all headphone gear, enforced by simple manufacturer testing.
Please join me if you find yourself ever frustrated by this seemingly pedantic, but real, and real-frustrating occurrence.
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The Impose excess noise limits for headphone manufacturers petition to Federal Government was written by Justin Levy and is in the category Consumer Affairs at GoPetition.