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Loudspeakers- कुछ ही देर पहले मेरी सहेली मणि का फोन आया. अरे !! आवाज ही नही पहचानी गई.. मैने पूछा क्या हुआ… पर आवाज ही नही निकल रही थी कल तक तो ठीक थी एक ही दिन में …. !!! मैं  तुरंत उसके घर गई. उसकी तो आवाज बिल्कुल  ही बंद थी.

मैने गुस्से मे कहा कि कितनी बार मना किया है बर्फ मत खाया कर … उसने  मायूस सा होते हुए इशारे से बताया कि नही खाई. फिर मैने पूछा खट्टी चटनी ?? उसने फिर  न की मुद्रा मे गर्दन हिला दी !! अरे तो फिर हुआ क्या? उसने लिख कर बताया कि कल किसी समारोह मे गए थे वहां डीजे पर  गाने बहुत तेज आवाज मे बज रहे थे. वहां बहुत जानकार भी मिले और उनसे बात भी करनी थी इसलिए महा भयंकर शोर मे कान के पास चिल्ला चिल्ला कर बोलना पडा इसलिए गला बैठ गया.

ओह ..नो !! इस पर उसने लिखा अरे तू क्यो लिख रही है मेरे कान तो ठीक है … ह हा हा !! मैने कहा ये भी एक बडा चिंता का विषय है. कान फूडू संगीत भी आज कल स्टेटस सिंबल बन गया है. कुछ दिन पहले मै भी एक प्रोग्राम मे गई  वहां भी बहुत तेज संगीत बज रहा था इस पर जब  मालिक से बोला कि क्या संगीत की ध्वनि धीमे  हो सकती है  इस पर वो बोले अजी आप कमाल करती हैं इतने पैसे खर्च किए हैं डीजे के लिए…  आवाज  कम नही होगी..

और पूरे कार्यक्रम में हम इशारों मे ही बात करते रहे… या फिर वटस अप पर मैसेज भेज कर बाते करते रहे. मेरी सहेली ने जब अपना मोबाईल देखा तो बीस मिस्ड काल थी उसके पति बाहर बुलाने के लिए कर रहे थे… पर सुनाई ही नही दिया…मैने सलाह दी कि ऐसे मे वाईब्रेशन पर लगा देना चाहिए और मोबाईल हाथ में पकडे रहना चाहिए.

वैसे  वो भी अच्छा अनुभव था. मूड खराब करने का कोई फायदा नही क्योकि लोग नही सुधरेंगें पर हम नई नई भाषा जरुर सीख जाएगे.

Loudspeakers

Be kind to your ears, listen quietly

Give it a try, turn the volume down a little, and once you get used to listening quietly, turn it down a little more. Granted, quiet listening works best in quiet places; in noisy environments stick with in-ear, closed-back, or noise-canceling headphones. Avoid ear buds and open-back headphones, they don’t hush external noise so you have to play music a lot louder than you might realize.

If you do the bulk of your listening in noisy places, continuing with ear buds (the type that come with phones) may eventually lead to hearing loss from continued exposure over a long period of time to excessively loud sound. I covered how ear buds, in-ear, and closed- and open-back headphones work and how they differ on previous blogs.

If you have to listen in noisy places or while commuting, consider buying in-ear or closed-back full-size headphones to seal out noise. When you reduce the background noise level competing with the music, you can turn the music’s volume way down, and the difference can be very significant. Even inexpensive closed-back or in-ear headphones will help you listen more quietly.

I find with the better-sounding in-ear and closed-back headphones I can listen at a much lower volume and still not feel like I’m losing detail or the music’s energy. Quiet listening draws me in more, so I listen more attentively. Once you get used to listening quietly it will become the new norm, and your ears will suffer less listening fatigue.

Noise-canceling headphones block more noise than any other type of headphone, so you can turn the music down even more, but most noise-canceling models don’t sound as good playing music as equivalently priced closed-back headphones. See more…

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The Arkansas SCBWI Conference is this weekend in Conway, AR.

Featured speakers are Anastasia Suen, Greenwillow editor Martha Mahilick, and agent Jennifer (Jaeger) Rofe, from the Andrea Brown Literary Agency.

Earlier, I linked to the websites and blogs of the speakers.

Full registration information is available on the Arkansas SCBWI website.

If you’re anywhere close, come join us!

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