Why did Vegas get so LOUD?

Very loud music playing late Sunday evening at the Airport!!

No problem with loud kick ass music at poolside or on Fremont Street it is a party atmosphere as well it should be. Inside a casino takes a different atomsphere and if you are sitting under a speaker it can drive you to the place it is not enjoyable to gamble.

The casino noise does have an effect on me. By the time I get to the room I like to enjoy the quiet for a few minutes. No tv, no radio. Just the quiet sound of nothing. Except my last trip when I was enjoying the quiet my neighbor was making is wife/gf screems or moan so loud it had to be fake. Maybe I was just pissed because I was not getting and quiet time or sex. Anyway I do understand what your saying.

I think a couple of you said it just right about the noise. There is a big difference in the "type" of noise. The yelling at a craps table or the sports book is part of the experience. The six drunks playing the penny slots is just annoying. Sorta of like the difference between the hot guy hitting on you while your playing and the old gramps or sloppy drunk giving you advise while your playing. The one I think is the most annoying is when one of the reel slots is turned up really loud and the ding-ding-ding it emits drives me nuts. At the MSS this trip one was awfully loud. When an attendant came over to give us a scratch off-they called for someone to come turn it down it was so loud. The only part of the loud music that bothered me this trip was when you have the casino music playing and one of the casino bars with a band playing. They just kept turning both up louder to try and cover up the other--didn't work well, just made both sound bad.

The reason they play the so-called "music" so loud is for the near deaf generations who have grown up with boom boxes, loud auto speakers and cranked up ear buds while they listen to their I Pods. In a nutshell, they can't hear music played at what used to be considered enjoyable levels. They will be the future hearing aid generation.

It used to be the "NOISE OF JACKPOTS" paying off! We know now that is entirely NOT THE PROBLEM, they turned the Music UP cause it was alot cheaper than having a few jackpots cashing out!

I wonder if I am the only one who thinks you see very very few jackpots or handpays taking place anymore?

We are getting old, hate the load noise myself, but in the morning they play nice music and I can't hear it half the time. Have the casinos ever heard of a happy medium!!

There are plenty of lower key casinos that keep the noise in check. Go to the Bellagio or the Encore...or anywhere on Boulder Highway. I wanted a calm evening this past week so I went all they way up to Santa Fe Station on the north side. It was mellow and fun...plus I won $250 on a penny slot.

I HATE loud music in a restaurant, and mostly that is what is happening...

At one of our favorite places, the manager explained "the music is supposed to be loud enough so that you do not hear conversations from the other tables. If the music is too soft, you are bothered by everyone else's conversation."

BULL CRAP!! I told him so, too (in nicer language).

Tracks and volume appropriate to the circumstances.

Loud volume in a restaurant = IMO, stupid. Who wants to go out socially as a couple or with friends and have to scream at each other to have a conversation?

In a casino at "off" hours. Equally annoying. Saturday night at 11 PM music track at Hard Rock isn't appropriate at 7:30 AM Tuesday.

If you're at a club, bar, street party, etc., all is fair game.

DB's screaming over $5 wins = not appropriate. If the casino is hard up enough to need patrons like this, you may need to revise your gaming venue options.

It's all about right time, right place and appropriate venue.

Dan