When you listen through headphones? It seriously does and I'm not talking about cheap tinny iPod (other MP3 players are available) ear bud headphones. I am talking full ear incasing speakers strapped to your head. I remember when big headphones were un-cool and were only worn by old men talking on ham radios.
Smaller was better. Actually looking back on some of the headphones that came with portable tape players, (yes kids we used to listen to tapes) back in the 80's and 90's is embarrassing. A thin piece of metal went over your head with two tiny speakers with no bass covered in thin foam which would either rip or come off the speaker.
Then jump forward to the rise of the DJ and suddenly walking around with headphones on your head that Princess Leia would be proud of is acceptable. Going back to my original statement, maybe its because you can completely turn off the outside world and all other distractions. As I sit here and write this I am listening to Naughty by John Morley. The bass is making my eardrums vibrate so much that it tingles... then BAM! I get a towel thrown at the side of my head. Unbeknownst to me Shauna had been trying to get my attention, literally shouting across the room at me. I was totally oblivious. Just me, the bass and my tingly ears.
Talking of tapes... weren't they crap? Remember how you would be listening to a song and then the sound would go all garbled. So you open the tape deck only to find 5 meters of chewed up tape billowing out and you would always think, "How long was that going on for?" Then you had to search for a very precise instrument to fix it... yep a pen to stick in the wheel and wind it back up. Wasn't that flukey that a pen was the right size and shape to work perfectly?
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