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    Areku Foxfire
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    No offense to anyone but I'm starting to wonder if most of you have medical hearing problems.

    I really don't see this as a big deal. And I have about 20 songs and can hear all of them perfectly fine regardless of where in my house I am without having to adjust the volume at all.

    Like, I'm all for more options, but I feel you all are over-exaggerating how bad the sound is. It's perfectly fine to me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
    It's perfectly fine to me.
    Follow-up question: What kind of sound do you have? Speakers or headset? And if headset, does it have any kind of virtual surround (i.e. could you hear from which direction levi is going to dive?) or is it equal-opportunity stereo?

    The issue is most noticeable through headsets. Even my "crappy" €25 phone headset (with a splitter to work with PCs) goes almost completely silent in one ear if I turn my camera 90 degrees or more in one direction instead of looking straight at the orchestrion. Especially if I'm close to it. I'd wager I wouldn't have that much of an issue with the sound if I had it on speaker sound instead, but... Since I have another person playing in the same room as me, I can't really do that.

    (Also yes, I do have slight hearing issues, but they're related to my ADHD and not to actual hearing disabilities. Still means I need to have subtitles when watching stuff, since with background music and sound effects and accents I can't focus on the dialogue well enough to hear everything said.)
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    Last edited by Noxifer; 03-29-2016 at 10:19 AM.

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    Gyson Kincaid
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    Quote Originally Posted by FoxyAreku View Post
    No offense to anyone but I'm starting to wonder if most of you have medical hearing problems.

    I really don't see this as a big deal. And I have about 20 songs and can hear all of them perfectly fine regardless of where in my house I am without having to adjust the volume at all.

    Like, I'm all for more options, but I feel you all are over-exaggerating how bad the sound is. It's perfectly fine to me.
    My hearing is fine. However, if you honestly think both the volume and quality of sound is exactly the same as the default background music which plays whenever the stereo is turned off.. then you're probably the one that has an issue with your hearing. Because, to me, with my normal hearing, the difference is plain as day.

    We wanted to replace the background music. Period. We didn't want to replace the background music with inferior audio.
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