What's your take on music in a (machine) shop?

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Top comments include:

• “Personally, I don't ever. I like being able to hear the machine.”
• “Time and place, if you are listening to music while grinding or deep hole drilling etc. you deserve to get fired”
• “We’ve got 2 old tower speakers wall hung in our shop with a couple centre speakers parked below them. Some days when the energy’s low we’ll turn em up and have it pretty loud but there’s a time and place for it. Lots of Creed of course”
• “I always ask the people around me if its okay and if it bothers them to let me know and I will turn it down. I have to have music, honestly it helps me focus and some of the shops I work in are pretty quiet unless a machine is running. Music helps me focus and bust out orders ahead of time with accuracy. As long as you aren’t bothering others, I don’t see an issue.”
• “I use one headphone pretty much constantly. Helps me focus a ton, doesn’t bother anyone else, and I keep it low enough that I can hear everything I need to hear.”
• “Get some beats fit pros, the passive audio makes it so nice for listening to your music as well as being able to hear what’s going on in your mill.”
• “RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE!”
• “get some good IEMs(NOT earbuds/earphones). you can get the best music quality without having to crank the volume too high, that way you can still hear people and your machines.”
• “To work on metal you have to listen to metal 🤘”