Doof doof at Jaycar - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:04:17 pm
content: I’m a regular at 2 Jaycar stores, plus an infrequent visitor to two others. All four stores on every visit have ultra-low bass doof-doof music playing through those boomy, garbage quality plastic bass bins they sell. It’s not just played quietly “in the back ground” either and the tracks played seem to be of the most banal, brain damaged crap one could possibly select from the doof-doof genre.The Adelaide store is the worst offender.This annoys the crap out of me. Is it company policy to annoy customers with incessant, mentally retarded, loudly played Doong! Doong! Doong! Dooof! Doong! Doong! Doof! Doof! Doof! Doof? Does this annoy anyone else?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:07:11 pm
content: "Doof-doof music" - I love it! Is this an Australian thing or just yours? I may have to steal that term.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:10:24 pm
content: It's pretty generic down here. Mostly associated with mentally retarded, inbred bogans that drive around the suburbs at 1 am in their VN Commodores with chopped springs; and a "fullie sik bro" subwoofer rattling around in the boot.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:34:18 pm
content: Jaycar seems like a weird place for doof-doof music. Most similar places that I've been in didn't have any music playing at all.

author: lowimpedance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:45:35 pm
content: Quote from: GK on March 17, 2013, 11:10:24 pmI feel your pain.I suspect its up to the those types in the stores to choose the in store entertainment!!.

author: Lightages
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:45:56 pm
content: It is all over Chile too. Ridiculous annoying ear bleeding noise. I am sure the level is over the legally allowed safety limits for work regulations too. Sometimes I feel like kicking in the speakers as I walk by.

author: Things
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 17, 2013, 11:47:09 pm
content: Yeap, many of the Jaycar's I've been to were actually run by younger guys. However aren't these speakers usually set up on display? Go up and change it to your favourite radio station

author: johnboxall
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:00:27 am
content: Quote from: GK on March 17, 2013, 11:04:17 pmComplain to HQ - attention Gary Johnston.

author: andersm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:02:23 am
content: Quote from: GK on March 17, 2013, 11:04:17 pmCongratulations, you're now officially old. Your complementary packet of Werther's Originals will shortly arrive by post.

author: notsob
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:05:02 am
content: next time you go there, accidentally place a battery powered audio oscillator near their system ( a really annoying hum on their speakers type).The doof doofs will spend days tracking it down (and wont want to play their doof doof doof music at that time)

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:22:40 am
content: Quote from: andersm on March 18, 2013, 12:02:23 amHey, those are the shit!

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:27:51 am
content: Quote from: notsob on March 18, 2013, 12:05:02 amI have to say, I tend to be a fan of suggestions that start with "accidentally".

author: emc2
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 01:53:45 am
content: just tell them you dont like it.. maybe they'll stop it..

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 03:01:15 am
content: Assuming that the sound amp for the store is like 90 percent of the systems out there, the signal is distributed at only signal level intensity to different mains powered amplifiers. Also, the cable that they like to use is unshielded, and spans the length of the store. You see where I am going here dont you?

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 03:34:04 am
content: Quote from: andersm on March 18, 2013, 12:02:23 amLOL. Is 36 old?

author: RCMR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 03:36:27 am
content: Same thing here in NZ at the DSE stores.Yes, all the "trendy young things" who are supposed to be serving customers are out the back talking about what they did on the weekend and, because the stereos are in the showroom area, they have to turn them up *really* loud so they can still hear them while drinking their coffee and gas-bagging.And they wonder why the DSE chain is in such trouble?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 03:40:38 am
content: Quote from: GK on March 18, 2013, 03:34:04 amAs the dirt itself.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 04:34:39 am
content: By the way, we need a word like "bogan" in the U.S. I live in a town almost entirely populated by what seem to be bogans. We have "redneck", but it's not quite the same.

author: gnif
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 06:59:08 am
content: Quote from: notsob on March 18, 2013, 12:05:02 amThis is a GOLD idea! Put a note inside it too telling them their music choice sucks so that if/when they eventually find it they know what it is for.The Jaycar up here in Katoomba play doof doof music on speakers OUTSIDE the shop into the street. There was two in Canberra when I lived there, one in Fishwick and the other in Belconnen, both with the doof doof. Also at their central office in Sydney, same thing again, perhaps those 'fully sick bros' spend more then anyone else.I laugh every time I see one of those VNs up here as the few of them that are still around have had their rear speakers installed, no boxes, resting on the rear parcel shelf fully exposed, held in place by their wires. I bet that would sound AWESOME.

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 08:12:12 am
content: Some places demo audio gear with the speakers not even in phase with each other. The only benefit is that it actually reduces some of the doof-doof effect. Still sounds shit of course.

author: Wytnucls
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 08:40:47 am
content: Was at Jaycar in Perth today. No loud music, very subdued feed from radio station, no problem there.

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 08:46:14 am
content: Quote from: GK on March 18, 2013, 03:34:04 amA mere babe. I can't remember that far back

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 10:34:41 am
content: Get yourself a car like this one for your next visit to Jaycar and park it out side.http://youtu.be/TxZtKlzx44s

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 10:40:57 am
content: Quote from: c4757p on March 17, 2013, 11:34:18 pmWell, one could certainly imagine so!

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 10:42:00 am
content: Quote from: gnif on March 18, 2013, 06:59:08 am

author: StevenB
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:48:36 pm
content: QuoteIt is to the doof doof crowd.ETA: Get off my lawn!

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 12:54:28 pm
content: Quote from: GeoffS on March 18, 2013, 08:46:14 amErmmm....... that ain't me in the avatar pic....BTW, yours is really damn annoying.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 18, 2013, 04:11:06 pm
content: I keep wanting to swat that fly......Lucky you do not use public transport here, I was waiting for a bus one afternoon and heard it coming ( and it wasn't just the Atlantis Diesel knocking big ends) from 3km away. Decided to wait for the next one that was not sound propelled, so got on the Green Mamba that came along 3 minutes later.

author: GK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2013, 05:52:32 am
content: Yes, I've motioned to squish it more than once.Had to pop into the Adelaide Jaycar today for a part. The ridiculous bass rumble was still omnipresent in the background, but turned way down compared to previous visits. Coincidence?

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2013, 04:10:00 pm
content: Build a universal off control and take it in, or read the manual on the universal remote control that they sell, put it in guess mode and press while aimed at the radio, until silence is achieved.

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2013, 04:53:47 pm
content: To add to seanB. If the sound is through the radio, it will be a really simple matter to make a jammer.http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/make a version of that for radio frequencies rather than the microwave900mhz it is designed for. It even uses a 555! :3

author: RCMR
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 19, 2013, 09:23:27 pm
content: There is of course a beautifully elegant solution...The "public performance" of copyrighted music is illegal without having first gained a license from the rights-collection agency in your country. The music rights owners are *very* aggressive in forcing compliance with these licensing laws.Do you think Jaycar has the relevant license?Here is the website of the Aussie body:http://www.musicrights.com.au/fact-sheets/test123/I suggest you give them a call and ask them to check and see whether Jaycar has obtained the necessary license to allow this doof-doof crap to be inflicted on their customers.You might find things change *very* quickly!

author: gregariz
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 20, 2013, 04:23:38 am
content: Quote from: RCMR on March 19, 2013, 09:23:27 pmLast time I was in Jaycar (I think it may have been the Albury Shop.. could have been Fyshwick though) there was a guy behind the counter who looked just like Sideshow Bob (spitting image - hair and the whole deal). The other attendants even called him Bob. He is a walking copyright violation.