April 2015:   
      
      
   We had since switched managers with another branch of our store   
   chain(something my employer does every 6-12 months it turns out).   
   This manager kept the music at a more normal level.   
      
      
   I came into work and the music sounded somehow *different*.  A couple   
   weeks later, the telecommunications expert and chief trouble-shooter for   
   the American Telegraph and Telepheeun compagnie came in to do some   
   rewiring, and the server rrim door was left open while he was going   
   around the store snaking new wires.  I thusly got a look at what was a new   
   music brain-box on top of the mixer-amp.   
      
      
   This new box was slim, plain black rectangular, with one blue indicator   
   LED indicating it was alive and functioning ok.  But what really caught my   
   eye was the position the amp's 'CD/AUX' volume knob was set at: 11-12 o'clock,   
   but the volume in-store was just right!  For heaven knows what purpose, the   
   Treble knob was fully clock-wise(I had set both Bass & Treble set both to   
   1 o'cock during a previous visit when the door was not fully closed by a   
   manager one day).  I returned Treble to 1 oclock, and the sound was   
   perfect, if only slightly louder than I would have set it.   
      
      
   My point is, this new music modem was set to feed a proper level to   
   the store's main mixer-amp, unlike the old one which was so hot the   
   Aux pot had to be kept below 8 oclock, lest we blast the speakers out   
   of the ceiling!   
      
      
   Now if we could do something about the MUSIC!  Major major decade   
   creep: Old service played music from 1960s - 2013; the new one,   
   1980 to present with only one or two 1970s hits per day!   And a lot   
   of stuff I would play in a club at peak crowd, but never in a retail   
   environment!  Bummer..   
      
      
   At least it sounds better.   
      
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