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Comment by najirama | Hacker News Reader

I absolutely LOVE the sound of these Vuvuzelas - I don't understand why there is such a fuss over them.

I find the drone puts me into an almost trance-like state where my focus and concentration abilities increase dramatically. I imagine I'd quite like having these things blaring while playing on such a grand stage as the World Cup.

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I love stadium sounds and I usually hate when broadcasters cut out all the crowd singing, etc. BUT the vuvuzelas are in such number than instead of making single horn sounds it's just a 100% BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzz all the game. When you watch one game, it's ok, when you watch more, or all the games, it's annoying as hell, rly.

It's very different when you're at the game - the vuvuzelas near you are distinguishable and you can hear people singing.

Obviously that's not ideal for watching it on tv - the vuvuzelas tend to drown everything else out when it's all recorded - but I'm not sure what the ideal solution is, because there's no way that anyone here in South Africa would accept a ban.

The obvious - and implemented - solution is to adjust the audio signal for TV viewers.

Everyone wins.

I prefer the other sounds that crowds make such as cheering, booing, singing, playing drums, banging the stands in sync, the occasional trumpet. The Vuvuzela totally blocks all of these out, replacing them with a monotone buzz. To me it destroys a lot of what is great about watching soccer.

Try coding with them playing in the background for a week and let us know if productively increases ;)

Or visit HN with this link http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/news.ycombinator.com :D

Not an apiarist by any chance are you? ;)

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