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If I had realized how shitty the sound was in the MRI headphones I would not have asked for one of my favorite bands when they asked me what music I wanted

But I had a little panic when it was Billy Joel for the first 15 seconds.

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Your problem is that you were not listening to 'Welcome to The Machine' by Pink Floyd whilst in the MRI.
Just, uh, start the track the instant you put the headphones on and get on the bed, I swear the timing lines up perfectly.
You guys get music during your MRIs? I just get shitty foam earplugs :(
I wasn't even given an option for sound, the guy told me the headphones were just for communicating. I just tanked 30 minutes in the tube with nothing but the sound of vibrations.
Last time I went I could only choose between local radio stations. Unfortunately I spent the last 5 minutes listening to a news report about a murder victim being found in a ditch near the hospital. I think I'll pick silence next time.
I honestly cant remember what the sound was like in the first MRI I had.
Had just broken and dislocated up my shoulder and they wanted it rotated out - up there with the most painful things ever experienced
If you don’t ask, they default to Autechre
- Autechre
  Seems like it might work
- Even though Second Bad Vilbel sounds like a CAT scan, I still love it
I usually ask for silence for the same reason, better to try just close eyes and meditate/dissociate through it. Was your head inside the machine? Pretty claustrophobic either way, but head first is particularly not nice.
- Yeah, I was head first but I'm OK with confined spaces. The little bullseye right in front of my eyes was a little weird though.
Was it really the headphones being low quality or is the MRI just so loud that any headphones would sound terrible?
- Well, no metal in there so it's just piped in over air tubes like the old-school airline headphones. The speaker is at the outside end of the tube and the user just gets to hear whatever comes down that little rubber tube. They also give you a rubber ball to squeeze if you need to "press the button".
  Interesting experience honestly, the headphones are definitely hearing protection and damn protective. I'm used to wearing hearpro and it was pretty damn loud. Operator told me it would sound like jackhammers but that's not true. Voice from operator comes down the same pipe the music does, I had to actually parse what he said to me, it was like in a tunnel.
  
  Well, no metal in there
  What have they got against Iron Maiden?
  
  Oh, so that is how those headphones work. I had an MRI a long time ago as a child, and really can't remember much about it at all.
  
  Would you recommend podcasts instead?
  
  thanks, I was wondering how it work

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