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ydg
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States690 Posts
February 04 2009 04:33 GMT
#1
I got some headphones a few months ago and started using them on my mp3 player and for my laptop. Everything was seemingly okay; on the highest volume they'd burst my ears so I'd lower the volume.

And then I went home for winter break.
At home I relied exclusively on my headphones so as to not disrupt my family when I played. But the one day I discovered that the music coming from my headphones was soft. Strangely soft. I would tune the volume to the max to remedy this, but even then the volume was much softer than it used to be, even at a lower volume. I thought my hearing was dying or something.

I went to the gym today, blaring my Wondergirls music in my mp3 player, thinking that my hearing was dying and so I needed max volume to listen to it. It was fine, since most people had their own music, and I thought nothing of it. But then when I went to change, I took off my headphones and I heard something blaring. It was my music. I looked at my headphones and realized that the sound was MUCH louder when they weren't in my ears than when they were. And so I asked a friend if he could hear the music and if it was indeed softer in his ears than outside, and he agreed.

And now my headphones are backwards. The music comes out the back of them instead of the part that goes in my ear. It's quite embarrassing now that I think of all the times I blasted my music thinking that others couldn't hear me or that it would be softer because, you know, my ear is in the way of the sound. But it actually wasn't. Now I understand, sort of, why this really bitchy woman was like, "Could you please quiet down your mouse" when I was DOTA-ing in the library during finals week.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
koreakool
Profile Joined January 2008
United States334 Posts
February 04 2009 04:35 GMT
#2
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
February 04 2009 04:43 GMT
#3
On February 04 2009 13:35 koreakool wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX3hIcVXn0


Exactly what I thought of when I read this thread title.
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
February 04 2009 04:47 GMT
#4
This video reminds me of how tossgirl used to actually look female.

Now she just looks like hwasin...
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
il0seonpurpose
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)5638 Posts
February 04 2009 04:53 GMT
#5
Yeah tossgirl used to be real pretty. but I thought of exact thing
Pioneer
Profile Joined December 2008
994 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-04 04:57:07
February 04 2009 04:56 GMT
#6
Something weird concerning earbuds happened to me as well. I was watching a show on my computer and my headphones gave me a shock (like a static shock) and the right earbud is much louder than it was before or something happened with my eardrum :D. before i had to keep videos around 60% volume on VLC but now if it's above 25% it's to loud and I can hear everything clearly and I have no pain in my ear so I guess something happened with the wiring in my headphones?

btw, it's just as loud in my left ear as it is in my right so i'm pretty sure it's the earbuds.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
February 04 2009 05:04 GMT
#7
lol at blasting wondergirls at the gym
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
shavingcream66
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1219 Posts
February 04 2009 05:33 GMT
#8
On February 04 2009 13:43 DanceCommander wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2009 13:35 koreakool wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX3hIcVXn0


Exactly what I thought of when I read this thread title.

me too
roadrunner_sc
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1220 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-04 06:01:45
February 04 2009 06:01 GMT
#9
Great story.

The fact that you haven't found out your headphones were backwards isn't nearly as hilarious as the fact that no one, from the library to the gym, had ever pointed it out to you all this time.
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ydg
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States690 Posts
February 04 2009 06:41 GMT
#10
haha, well i didn't mean that i was wearing them backwards, i meant that the music was coming out of the back of the headphones and not the part you put in your ear.
i guess i should have said earphones.
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51503 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-02-04 07:24:28
February 04 2009 07:18 GMT
#11
On February 04 2009 14:04 fusionsdf wrote:
lol at blasting wondergirls at the gym


i was lanning with my friends and they made me listen to snsd really loud while i was playing so it would give them a 'handicap' (it was two of them vs me)
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boesthius
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States11637 Posts
February 04 2009 07:45 GMT
#12
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cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
February 04 2009 07:46 GMT
#13
The cones in them could be firing backwards if they have become airtight. Are they filled with earwax?
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51503 Posts
February 04 2009 11:01 GMT
#14
On February 04 2009 16:45 boesthius wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 04 2009 16:18 GTR-2-Go wrote:
On February 04 2009 14:04 fusionsdf wrote:
lol at blasting wondergirls at the gym


i was lanning with my friends and they made me listen to snsd really loud while i was playing so it would give them a 'handicap' (it was two of them vs me)

at the end of the game did you gggg baby baby baby?


well i was lipsyncing to the song just to piss them off

my friends are like WTF ARE YOU EARHACKING (because they were trying to talk to eachother about their 'strategy')

after the game ended, they persisted that i was cheating because i took my headphones off when they gg'ed.
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