The home venues also allow acoustic aficionados the pleasure of listening to their unamplified entertainment without the clanking of pint glasses, loud televisions and conversations of disinterested bar goers that often mar performances in public venues.
In a seventh-floor hallway, which has patients recovering from surgery and has 37 beds, the ears captured the sounds of multiple conversations, doors opening and shutting and loud televisions.
Airborne sound is generated from a source, like a loud television or stereo, and transmitted through the air.
"Every day, millions of Americans are barraged with abrasively loud television commercials," Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said this fall, making the TV-watching process sound downright painful.
Leftfield also owns Sirens Media and has established two joint ventures, Loud Television and Outpost Entertainment, in total producing 300 hours of programming annually.
I grew to hate being in the same room as a loud television, especially if it was playing cable news or reality shows — it just felt like having shit thrown at me from across the room.
I left him and headed down to the common room, where about six boys, some of them older and as tall as men, were sprawled in front of a loud television.
Produced by Loud Television, the company behind such life-style shows as "Tiny House Hunting," "Girls Incarcerated" rarely engages with the greater conversation about the efficacy of rehabilitative programs for juvenile women, or with the structural realities that lead to the incarceration of girls in the first place.
"What's your name?" I got to know everybody in that building, if only in passing: the comely dancer on the first floor, the hilarious musician-composer on the fifth, the bearded hermit whose nights unfolded with a loud television just the other side of our mutual wall.
A really big and loud television show, I grant you, with fight scenes fancy enough to induce motion-sickness in certain audience members seated in the third row, not to mention a body count high even by "Game of Thrones" standards.
But never have a loud television or stereo blasting right before rest.
