TURN IT UP TO 11! (No, wait, 12.)

[prinnysquad]

I think I usually have an even number. I do it without making a conscious effort.

More annoying about tv is this: There is a mammoth difference between 0 and 1. 0 is obviously silent, but 1, especially at night lying in bed, is like some crytal-clear town crier booming around the bedroom. Yet between 1 and 5, there's sod-all difference. The amount of times the missus has said, "can you turn that down?!" and I've had to reply that it's only on 1.

[Guts]

Yeah, I pretty much always have to turn the volume to an even number on my TV. Some form of mild OCD, I guess.

[toythatkills]

At present, the voting is exactly 50/50!

[Spatial]

What happens if the results end up as uneven numbers?

[toythatkills]

I can never come back

[kryss]

Shockingly, I'm not OCD about this at all. If I was, I would probably have to only use prime numbers.

I agree that it's annoying having to adjust the volume during the movie and always try to watch the volume I have the TV at - usually below 20 for the Wii and about 29/30 for movies.

[dataDave]

I used to be like this until I started using graphic EQ for listening to different types of music. Now I trust my ears, or my eyes when configuring HSB.

I used to have everything on even numbers or multiples of five.

Actually, when I'm working on artwork I always uniform my colour values for things I'm going to be using more than once, easier to remember that way. No one wants to work with C:14.79%% M:68.04% Y:51.92% K:27.82%, they especially don't want that documenting in a branding guideline. 15,70,50,30 is much better.

[SuperDanX]

On my old telly it always had to be set to 31, my newish Bravia is so quite, I quite often watch movies in the 75 to 85 region (100 being the max) that said I like to turn it back down to 31 before I turn off tho, this is normal yes?

[Number45]

I always turn my amp down to low levels before I switch off for the evening as well, although not a specific number. Just -40dB or less.

[nakamura]

Isn't this boadering on OCD though?

I think everyone has a little bit of OCD in them, I know I used too. Yes I do the tv thing, but only with the tv and not the DTS system, strange.
Also years ago I used to have an obsession of touching things equally 8 times with both hands. Only things like doors and windows, nothing else but it was strange. Somehow snapped out of it though.

[QualityChimp]

I've never been OCD or superstitious, but a while back I found myself only listening to my car stereo's volume in even increments.

Ironically, going full-circle with the thread title, Spinal Tap allowed me to go to 11 and released me forever more from such foolishness.

[PeteJ]

I don't need even numbers, I need multiples of 5. 10, 15, 20, 25 etc.

I have the exact opposite. I cannot set anything to multiples of 5, specifically alarms

The same goes with the volume on my surround sound. 14 for quiet, 19 for loud.

[Mayhem]

The problem is changing volume between various channels, and that adverts always seem to be much louder than the programs.

[Super Grover]

15 or 20 on my tv, depending on what standard of sound is being produced. Can't be anything else, unless I'm watching a film on DVD/Blu, and then sometimes it has to go to 40, because the sound is soor poor (quiet).

Glad to see I'm not the only one that has 'issues'!

[toythatkills]

At the moment us eveners have it. That means if you tune your TV's volume to an odd number, you're a freak!