Alive still

Actually the level is quite high and it was a miracle that at no time was there any cropping. I actually reduced the amplification on the left channel. For some reason it is always a 5% higher.

Most people I see with earphones seem to be listening to masons breaking down a wall, or at least that is what it sounds like freom my side of things, so I doubt hiss would make any difference to them, principally when they are at a major corssroads at rush time before a long weekend. Anyway, when listening on earphones it is incredible what you do hear. I suppose the engineers just imagine most people will use speakers, at least as far as classical music goes.

In the particular case of these recordings, as I had no intention to have them up, I did not bother to turn the fan off, which accounts for some of the noise, but there is always a hiss. My problem here is that any noises coming from the street are picked up beautifully and I have no way to get away freom the street, unless I move the piano into the kitchen, so that is why I hope to post in future, but cannot guarantee it.

 

It may not make a difference to them, hell, they LOVE noise. It does matter to classical music lovers who listen to more subtle music. And often do so, I assume, on headphones,
sometimes ridiculously expense ones (unlike me, I've just about the cheapest Sennheisers plugged into my PC).

Street noise can hardly be dealt with except perhaps by tripe-insulating your house and windows. I've heard street rumbles on studio recordings.
Don't make too much of a point of it. Just do whatever you CAN do to eliminate noises. Anyway they will get less relevant the better your playing becomes.

 

The sort of earphones that double as heating units! I used to have some too, but that was in the dead past.

 

I know! one cannot go to a restaurant without being "entertained"! Boom Boom BOOOM!!