What are your irrational prejudices? I have some bonkers ones...

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, SteveXFR said:

People who set the volume at odd numbers that aren't multiples of 5. What's wrong with them? They need locking up.

My daughter set the TV volume to 7 so I disowned her immediately. 

 

I prefer to set my volume to a prime number.

[LowB_FTW]

2 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

People who set the volume at odd numbers that aren't multiples of 5. What's wrong with them? They need locking up.

My daughter set the TV volume to 7 so I disowned her immediately. 

Oohh, our TV is always at odd numbers for volume. Normally 35 when watching with The Wife, but when she's in bed I set it to 31, sometimes 29 or 27 if it's a particularly loud mix.

 

Mark

[Frank Blank]

16 minutes ago, LowB_FTW said:

Oohh, our TV is always at odd numbers for volume. Normally 35 when watching with The Wife, but when she's in bed I set it to 31, sometimes 29 or 27 if it's a particularly loud mix.

 

I set the TV volume to 13 because I'm a Goth.

[SteveXFR]

3 hours ago, LowB_FTW said:

Oohh, our TV is always at odd numbers for volume. Normally 35 when watching with The Wife, but when she's in bed I set it to 31, sometimes 29 or 27 if it's a particularly loud mix.

 

Mark

 

You're a psychopath 

[tauzero]

8 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

People who set the volume at odd numbers that aren't multiples of 5. What's wrong with them? They need locking up.

My daughter set the TV volume to 7 so I disowned her immediately. 

 

That depends what day of the week it is. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are multiples of five, Tuesdays and Thursdays are multiples of four, and the weekend is prime numbers.

[itu]

I set the vol of the TV to 0, 3, 6, 9, 12... why on earth I decided to study acoustics? 

[Stub Mandrel]

2 hours ago, itu said:

I set the vol of the TV to 0, 3, 6, 9, 12... why on earth I decided to study acoustics? 

 

I suspect a well designed tv has one

volume step = 3dB.

[Woodinblack]

3 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

 

I suspect a well designed tv has one

volume step = 3dB.

 

That would be a terrible design!

[Stub Mandrel]

25 minutes ago, Woodinblack said:

 

That would be a terrible design!

 

But a very popular one...

 

Apparently 2dB is seen as standard for phones etc.

[itu]

It's a Sony, and definitely does not have 3 dB steps in vol. Do I have to turn on my B&K and measure the steps? No no... now you @Stub Mandrel have planted the seed... bugger. 

 

 

[Mottlefeeder]

I set the TV volume at zero, and use the HiFi volume to control the sound level. It does not have numbers.

David

[kwmlondon]

37 minutes ago, Mottlefeeder said:

I set the TV volume at zero, and use the HiFi volume to control the sound level. It does not have numbers.

David

We have a sound bar that's the same. It was great. Until firestick. Now there is off/tooquiet/tooloud .... never been higher than that. It's bloody infuriating. 

[AinsleyWalker]

1) People who post 'collection-only' pedal listings online 🥴 This isn't the noticeboard on your local village green... 
Sending a pedal via post isn't hard. I've sent 3 this week... I wouldn't sell things anywhere near as quick as I do currently (generally less than a week turnaround) if I refused to arrange delivery. Just denying yourself a sale. 

2) People who post very specific job-lots of individually expensive items and refuse to split 🥴 I can understand if the job-lot is cheap, but I've seen a few people post entire pedalboards totalling over £1000... What are the odds someone wants your exact setup lol? Why would you not just sell piecemeal and make the sales? Imagine if you went into a shop and they said sorry you can't buy this single Tshirt, you need to buy an entire pre-chosen wardrobe of clothes....

I genuinely think some people aren't bothered about making the sale, and just want to play shopkeeper on the internets.

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[AinsleyWalker]

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[Marvin]

I'm with those who don't like painted necks. I don't like active on board eq that doesn't have a mid control. 

White pickguards.

 

Those baseball caps with the really flat peak. Ugh.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Marvin

[AinsleyWalker]

1 hour ago, Marvin said:

White pickguards.

 

 

Pickguards in general tbh. Let's take this lovely piece of wood and stick a random bit of horrible plastic on...

 

Especially Stingray/round Musicman ones (see my profile pic...) why would I want an expensive instrument to resemble a toilet seat...

[Marvin]

People who have to have the application they're using on full screen on a shared terminal... and don't close it. 

They're not using the full functionality of the windows... thing.

 

Actually,  I think that's a daily annoyance 

 

[tauzero]

1 hour ago, AinsleyWalker said:

Pickguards in general tbh. Let's take this lovely piece of wood and stick a random bit of horrible plastic on...

 

Especially Stingray/round Musicman ones (see my profile pic...) why would I want an expensive instrument to resemble a toilet seat...

 

There's no point to the wretched things. They're only there to cover over the front routing, and if the control cavity was rear routed instead, they could be done away with. They're just there to show that your expensive bass has been made as cheaply as possible. Harley Benton can manage rear routing of a bolt-on bass for £155, you'd think other makers could do as well for basses costing ten times as much.

[kwmlondon]

Metal corners on speaker cabs. Urgh. Why? No idea. Just don't like 'em.

[Stub Mandrel]

1 hour ago, tauzero said:

 

They're only there to cover over the front routing

 

No they're not.

Acoustic instruments have them, and many semi-acoustics and some others (e.g. many Gibsons) have decorative ones and have rear-routed control cavities.