CC 72100
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As a bit of an audiophile, I despise cheap headphones - I want to hear music as the composer/band wrote it, not through some crappy, tinny earphones that strip out all the sound quality. I also hate having to listen to someone else's "music" second hand because of their cheap earphones.
As for other sources of noise, if you have a loud child of any age, you should not be in the quiet carriage. If you're going to hold a conversation louder than a murmur, you should not be in the quite carriage. I quite like that every time I've walked through the quiet carriage on the SWT services I've used, it's been pretty much silent. Then I walk through the doors at the other end to find someone yelling down their phone.
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Another of my pet hates! I've also got some sennheiser headphones following a friends recomendation, much better than the dire apple phones that came with the phone in December 2010 and were broken by April '11.
With regards to phones, Quiet coach or not I always go to the vestibule if someone rings me during a journey. I may not want to share the ins and outs of my life with the rest of the carriage, and I'm sure they aren't that interested either! Always vestibule for me, unless it's a wedged XC voyager in which it doesn't make a difference as it's usually rammed full so you can't get there and everyones making noise anyway!