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It's funny that this popped up because I just got home from watching Captain Marvel. I know I have at least some tinnitus because my world sounds like the desc

It's funny that this popped up because I just got home from watching Captain Marvel. I know I have at least some tinnitus because my world sounds like the descriptions of it, but it's not so bad that it really affects my hearing. That said, I have noticed that some movies--particularly Marvel explosion ones in IMAX--sound much louder to me in my mid-30s. The higher sounds come across to me as sharp or shrill. One nice thing about going everywhere with a backpack is I'm used to having earbuds with me so now, I just don't take them out of my ears when I get to a movie. I still hear everything and it doesn't sound muffled, merely...turned down, I guess, to a "good" volume. I first hit on this when I forgot to take my earbuds out prior to, of all things, a Weird Al concert (his "Vanity" tour at The Moore in Seattle). I'd ridden the bus down there and had VIP tickets for the pre-show stuff so I sat and watched it with my earbuds in for listening to his music during the lulls in the pre-show activities. When Emo Phillips started, I forgot to take them out and realized after the show that my ears weren't ringing (louder than usual) and I didn't have the beginnings of a headache.

michaelbuckbee 8y ago
We went to an early Sunday matinee of a kids movie and the sound was unnaturally loud so we asked the attendant and they said: "Oh yeah, we had it turned up for Captain Marvel last night. We'll go turn it down." So, at least anecdotally you're not wrong about the superhero and big-budget action movies being louder.
checkyoursudo 8y ago
I do this too. I will often work with my earbuds in with nothing playing just because of the slight noise dampening effect. It's usually just enough.
_kyran 8y ago
One nice thing about going everywhere with a backpack is I'm used to having earbuds with me. For anyone else that doesn't want to carry a backpack, a set of earplugs fits great in the coin pouch of a wallet, or attached as a keychain.
- rhinoceraptor 8y ago
  A good set of concert earplugs are like $15, everyone should have them. I also find occasionally if I'm in a loud restaurant, they help drown out the people talking obnoxiously loudly and I can actually hear the people I want to.
rhinoceraptor 8y ago
I usually take my earplugs to the movies now, mostly for the trailers. It seems like they're always mixed much louder than the actual movie I'm going to see, and trailers contain every explosion the movie they're showing has.

michaelbuckbee 8y ago

We went to an early Sunday matinee of a kids movie and the sound was unnaturally loud so we asked the attendant and they said: "Oh yeah, we had it turned up for Captain Marvel last night. We'll go turn it down." So, at least anecdotally you're not wrong about the superhero and big-budget action movies being louder.

checkyoursudo 8y ago

I do this too. I will often work with my earbuds in with nothing playing just because of the slight noise dampening effect. It's usually just enough.

_kyran 8y ago

One nice thing about going everywhere with a backpack is I'm used to having earbuds with me. For anyone else that doesn't want to carry a backpack, a set of earplugs fits great in the coin pouch of a wallet, or attached as a keychain.

rhinoceraptor 8y ago
A good set of concert earplugs are like $15, everyone should have them. I also find occasionally if I'm in a loud restaurant, they help drown out the people talking obnoxiously loudly and I can actually hear the people I want to.

rhinoceraptor 8y ago

I usually take my earplugs to the movies now, mostly for the trailers. It seems like they're always mixed much louder than the actual movie I'm going to see, and trailers contain every explosion the movie they're showing has.