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I could be wrong, but you look more like a music maker to me than a noise maker--but, of course, I guess that's just a matter of taste...

Same here! However, I try to consider other people. One thing I love to do is to make animal sounds--and I can make one mean catcall. However, I wouldn't do it in some place like a theater, restaurant, library, etc.

I have my fun making both. ;~D

While I'm not one for a lot of "nanny laws," that kind of regulation just might be a good idea. If the extreme volume isn't available, then the teens wouldn't have it, and they just might get used to--and even appreciate--music played at a lower volume. They regulate smoking, so why not noise and what creates it. Speaking of being accustomed to noise, I notice many cases of dogs who won't respond to car horns. When dogs chase my minivan, I'll slow down so that I won't run over them and start blowing my horn--which is slightly louder than the horn on your average automobile--to discourage them. At one time, the noise of a car horn would send them scurrying, but, in so many cases, not these days. I honk, and they continue to chase. I've tried short toots, and I've tried leaning on the horn. Doesn't discourage them in the least bit. Therefore, I'm thinking that they probably live in a home where loud noise goes on quite a bit of the time, so it just doesn't phase them--which is something that could end up putting their lives in danger.

The problem with requirements for maximum decible levels is, it affects the sound quality at lower decible levels.

That could be true--so, probably, the best solution would be for noise ordinance laws to be enforced. That way, it would be your freedom to play your music so loudly that your eardrums look like miniature fishing nets and bleed and your house shakes--just so long as you aren't bothering others. It might be like giving someone to watch soap operas while eating an entire box of chocolates and a gallon of ice cream. If somebody could be arrested by the food police for that, the arm of the law has gotten too long--or, if you were issued some kind of card where you could only buy "naughty" foods every six weeks, that would also be a nanny law. You might not be on the best diet, but it's really nobody's business. If you're a consenting adult and want to make enough noise to turn yourself into hand lotion (This actually can be done at a very high decibel!), that's nobody else's business, either. However, if you were to take your ice cream, chocolates, potato chips, etc. and sit on Richard Simmons while force-feeding him the junk food, that would be breaking the law and abusing somebody. Same with decibels--create them for yourself and others who appreciate them.

Since we live in a society where motorized vehicles are almost downright necessary, and I'm not about to give up mine, the "normal" sounds of cars don't fall under unnecessary noise. But "problematic" cars (and other vehicles) where they've actually been designed to make a lot of racket are definitely unnecessary-to-the-max! To get from Point A to Point B, you don't need to have your stereo system turned up so loudly that it rattles windows--or even to the point where people outside of your vehicle can hear it. You also don't need to have your muffler removed and/or straight pipes to give your motor the ability to make a noise that cuts right through people. You also don't need to use your horn as a doorbell in a residential neighborhood, and your car alarm doesn't need to be an audible one. We should make our need/love of motorized vehicles as painless as possible for innocent by-listeners.