Jay Honeck wrote:

You put earplugs in your ears, and then turn up the volume?

Isn't that sorta like holding the brakes whilst flooring the accelerator?
What, exactly, are you trying to accomplish?

Well, the earplugs shut out the ambient noise. Increasing the volume of the
radio cancels the effects of the earplugs, as far as the radio is concerned. Now
all he hears is radio.

The main problem with this is that many radios have poorer signals at high
volume. You may be introducing electronic noise.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.