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How would you go about making someone understand that some source of audio is irritating but not because of volume?

For example, some television hosts (usually) yell when they speak. Mainly, I’m talking game show hosts but sometimes talk show hosts - especially late night.

Now, I generally don’t watch tv anymore, but I an often in the room when it’s on.
Until this type of thing happens.
I think I’d safely guess that this is why I don’t watch tv anymore.

I get up to leave and Mrs DCF will say, “I’ll turn it down.”
I say, “it’s not the volume..”

I’ve run out of things to say to make myself clear.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
How would you go about making someone understand that some source of audio is irritating but not because of volume?

For example, some television hosts (usually) yell when they speak. Mainly, I’m talking game show hosts but sometimes talk show hosts - especially late night.

Now, I generally don’t watch tv anymore, but I an often in the room when it’s on.
Until this type of thing happens.
I think I’d safely guess that this is why I don’t watch tv anymore.

I get up to leave and Mrs DCF will say, “I’ll turn it down.”
I say, “it’s not the volume..”

I’ve run out of things to say to make myself clear.
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big part of the reason i stopped watching NFL almost 20 years ago. the fucking announcers.
joe buck....madden......et. al.
not just because the louder voices, but they're just plain f'ing irritating and always know what SHOULD have been done.
same goes for commercials. instant mute. they're way louder and i'm sick and f'ing tired of hearing about medicare.
so maybe not exactly the same reasons as yours, but in the same neighborhood.

so in short, content/delivery/aggressiveness. i guess.
 
mongooz said:
big part of the reason i stopped watching NFL almost 20 years ago. the fucking announcers.
joe buck....madden......et. al.
not just because the louder voices, but they're just plain f'ing irritating and always know what SHOULD have been done.
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mongooz said:
same goes for commercials. instant mute. they're way louder
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The short answer is, it's like nails on a chalkboard to you.


I think the thing with commercials is everything, every word is full volume. That's compression, right? It's done on purpose to get their message across. Maybe talk shows have some audio processing going on, no idea what, that most people enjoy but, you don't. Back to the nails on a chalkboard, I've never understood people's reaction to nails on a chalkboard, doesn't bother me in the least. What's torture to me is the sound of the eraser on a chalkboard. Why am I different? The shape of my ears? Something different in the audio part of the brain? I don't have a clue why but, I really hate the sound of an eraser on a chalkboard.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
How would you go about making someone understand that some source of audio is irritating but not because of volume?

For example, some television hosts (usually) yell when they speak. Mainly, I’m talking game show hosts but sometimes talk show hosts - especially late night.

Now, I generally don’t watch tv anymore, but I an often in the room when it’s on.
Until this type of thing happens.
I think I’d safely guess that this is why I don’t watch tv anymore.

I get up to leave and Mrs DCF will say, “I’ll turn it down.”
I say, “it’s not the volume..”

I’ve run out of things to say to make myself clear.
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Oh thank you sweetie for being considerate but it’s their voice. It’s like fingernails scratching across a blackboard. That’s if you’re old enough to recall a classroom with a chalk blackboard. If not, I got nothing for a wife.
 
The word you’re looking for is “voice”. If you want to make it clearer, you can step it up with “grotesque voice” or “torturous voice” or “scathing voice”.

You can also use words like “sound”.
 
I don't think there's single word or two words that clearly cover what you're trying to convey....yet.
Use many of the words others have given here, in a long, drawn out sentence, with plenty of hand gestures. Be sure to point your eyebrows downward towards your nose when speaking.

Good luck!
 
+1 for "grating". That's what I usually go with in those situations. Of course, there's also the classic Zappa "ice pick in the forehead" reference.
 
There are definite frequencies that make my brain shatter like a wine glass… :messedup:

You mention certain TV hosts… but I find that it’s not just hosts, commercials, reality TV people with incessant nonsense chatter… if those sounds are coming out of the tiny internal speakers of the TV, or worse yet the speaker on a cell phone… it’s a screwdriver to the temple.

Once those same voices are coming out of the sound bar, or maybe the fact that they’re more balanced with the full range of background music and sounds… they’re much more tolerable. :helper:
 
Grating worked, but I had to provide an example and that seemed to help get the point across.

“A mosquito buzzing in your ear isn’t loud. It’s fucking grating. That’s what that <points at TV> sound like to me.”
 
baimun said:
There are definite frequencies that make my brain shatter like a wine glass… :messedup:

You mention certain TV hosts… but I find that it’s not just hosts, commercials, reality TV people with incessant nonsense chatter… if those sounds are coming out of the tiny internal speakers of the TV, or worse yet the speaker on a cell phone… it’s a screwdriver to the temple.

Once those same voices are coming out of the sound bar, or maybe the fact that they’re more balanced with the full range of background music and sounds… they’re much more tolerable. :helper:
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True. It’s not just hosts. Those are most prevalent as offenders in my experience.
That said, Mrs DCF was watching one of those Hallmark movies and the main character went on some whiney rant that, even with my ear buds in, went straight to rattling my skull.

That’s when I pulled out the mosquito line above.
 
dodgechargerfan said:
True. It’s not just hosts. Those are most prevalent as offenders in my experience.
That said, Mrs DCF was watching one of those Hallmark movies and the main character went on some whiney rant that, even with my ear buds in, went straight to rattling my skull.

That’s when I pulled out the mosquito line above.
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a bit off topic, but.....when i was in the AF, somehow a mosquito got INSIDE my ear and could not find it's way out!!!
had to go into the onbase ER to get it out.
talk about "buzzing in your ear" :eek:
 
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mongooz said:
a bit off topic, but.....when i was in the AF, somehow a mosquito got INSIDE my ear and could not find it's way out!!!
had to go into the onbase ER to get it out.
talk about "buzzing in your ear" :eek:
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I would raze anything and everything around me if that ever happened to me.
 
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