"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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I was once listening to cassette tapes on a plane flight with 7506s,
and someone three rows ahead complained. Personally, I think the guy
was seeing a lot more than he was hearing, and was just playing
prick.

One of the most annoying things to me on airplanes is sitting next to
someone listening to pop music on headphones, particularly the highly
compressed in-flight entertainment on the crappy headphones that they
give you on the plane. The problem isn't the bass, but the constant
chiss-chiss-chiss-chiss from the cymbals.

Right, but three rows foreward while the plane is in flight?

I wear Sennheiser noise cancelling headphones, and the mics that pick
up the ambient sound are mounted on the earpieces. With one of those
mics pointed right at my seatneighbor's leaky earphone, they don't
both pick up the same average ambient sound and the leakage gets
amplified in my phones. I often ask the person in the adjacent seat to
turn down his volume or put the phones back on his ears (which, when
he does, usually results in him turning down the volume).

A flight only lasts for a few hours, but a neighbor in an apartment
can complain for years. I feel your pain.

IME if you live in an apartment and want to listen to deep bass at useful
levels it's time to start shopping for a house.