Max Volume?

Question

I get on the bus alot to and from school and also play drums to music on my ipod. I've noticed that the volume level on the iPod is higher than that on the nano, even the old iPod mini's volume level is higher than the new nano's. On the bus, at full volume is pretty hard to enjoy the music loud enough to drown out the little kids on the bus. And while drumming I can't hear a thing with my headphones on, which I could with my old 30gig iPod video. Even with the volume limit set to max it's still pretty quiet. I was hoping the volume would increase as it's a new model but they'vej ust made it quieter. Is it really that hard to allow it to play louder? all the other MP3 players can go much louder.

Answer 1

The max volume on a nano is fairly loud,(when its the only sound) in your case its not loud enough to drown out your surroundings. although this volume is not as loud as your old ipod (and you have made the above fixes) it can damage your hearing permanently and if your picky about the quality of your music (like me) the quality goes down as the volume peaks. I would highly recomend buying sound isolating headphones, you can get cheap ones for about $10-20 which basically reduce background noise. personally i own a pair of the Shure headphones, these are amazing at reducing noise, i can listen to my ipod at 10% volume on the street or in the halls at school and not be bothered by other people. so as a result im listening to my music at a lower volume and while hearing it better. i would highly reccomend any of the Shure headphones or any sound isolating ear bud. i read a review of the Shure ec2's (cheapest model) done by an airport and the listener was not bothered by the jets taking off.
greatest in ear headphones i've ever used, i walk around the halls at school at 50% volume and i cant hear anyone! kinda weird when you just see their lips moving. and for your drumming, likely you will be able to hear your drums at the same time as they will likely still make some sound (due to close proximity) and you will feel the vibrations through your arms which in a sense is like hearing it. for example when i walk i can faintly hear my footsteps but could not hear the foot steps of someone pounding on the floor besides me.
so anyways to get to the point, try some of these sound isolating headphones out, even if its just a cheap model (10-20$) or the shure ones which i've heard professional musicians use in concerts so they can hear themselves... now thats powerful.
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