Okay Spiro, I think not. LOL! That sounds like I'd be taking things way to the extreme, so I'll just deal with the noise, I suppose, but I won't like it! Chuckle!
Claudia ----- Original Message ----- From: Spiro To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:21 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Love My Oreck But... do you have a shooting shop near you? Yeah, I mean a gun shop. I suggest that you go in, and ask for the cheapest shooting headphones you can get. I don't find the Oreck louder than all, a bit louder than the ElectroLux. But when I'm running my router, i am happy happy happy to have an extra set of *noise *cancelling *ear *protection! I can't run the router for more than 5 mins without wanting to jump out of my skin. I do audio for a living. Also when i was into shooting sports, nothing bigger than a .32 or it would shorten the fun. I think that *that will do you better than ear plugs. There are even expensive Noise Cancelling Cans that allow a great bit of sound through. but they are cancelling "rapid rise audio" like a sudden sound level rise (as ehn you fire a gun) and will eventually flatten out on a vac; which may bring through more than you want and spend more than you want on it. Being blind, you'll have to do the vacuuming with no one around as it will mess with your spacial a tiny bit and your "startle component" will go way up. The cheapest might do you quite well. The other answer would be "cancellation headphones" like used in mix down studios; (where they have to study sounds) which block out a great bit of outside sound. But the shooting headphones do well limit noise and let some through, where as the studio related ones will block all outside sound and raise your"startle factor" even more. Best of luck On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Claudia wrote: > Hi All, > > I have an Oreck upright vacuum, and I love the thing because you can vacuum > with it, very fast, and it's very lightweight. > However, the darned noise from the vacuum is so loud that it tends to give > me a headache, at times. > Are they all pretty noisy? > > Nothing has changed with it; I didn't inadvertently vacuum up anything I > wasn't supposed to; guess I was just really bothered by the noise today! > > > Claudia > > Join either of my groups; the first is for visually-impaired women, while > the other is for people wishing to discuss homemaking issues. > [email protected] > [email protected] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
