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Originally Posted by Martian
It's all about time and place. On the highway or in the industrial areas, I'll turn it up, downtown or in residential areas I lower the volume, especially if it's after 9:00.
I know people can hear my music, but it's not about them. I find driving to be neutral at worst and therapeutic at it's best and being completely immersed in the music is all part of the experience, just like having the windows down to feel the breeze is. If Joe Blow walking down the street thinks that G Love and Special Sauce or Stone Temple Pilots is crap, then to hell with him, as I'm not doing it for him anyway. I'll show enough respect to realize that people are asleep at a given time of day or at home relaxing and may not want to listen to my music, but I'm not going to worry too much about it just like I'm not going to worry about if the school kids I'm driving by hear the rather small amount of profanity in the music I listen to either. It's ultimately just not worth my getting stressed over.
Bear in mind that my car doesn't rattle and I turn it down if it begins to sound distorted or I start having problems with the balance. Sound is all about quality over quantity as far as I'm concerned.
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Have to agree here.
I listen to my music and it's some what loud. It's nothing ear splittingly loud but if you are next to me at a light there's a decent chance you'll hear it. I won't do it driving around late at night in a residential neighborhood. But I'm not doing it to have people look at me. I'm not doing it to be cool. I'm doing it to enjoy my music. As has been said I enjoy driving. And I think that total experience includes a good bit of enjoyable music or radio.
One of my favorite things in life is that first day of weather above 60 degrees in the spring is getting in the car dropping the windows and just enjoying the drive. It is like everything is right with the world.
And I'll likely continue doing this because I enjoy the drive. Unless I get blessed with a cammed small block Ford and then I'll just sit there and listen to the lopey idle. And then you'll have to listen to a big American V8 through straight pipes that drowns your car out whenever I accelerate over half throttle.
