Oh yeah. Seem to have hit some surprisingly adamant feelings here.

As I recall and have experienced, there's a technical description of the sound you hear in any house that's wired to the hydro grid. It's "60-cycle hum". I guess that's what I subconsciously don't like, so I look for for human sounds to drown it out.

The experience of being in a house or cabin that is off the grid is completely different. Very peaceful indeed.

Well, I gotta get off the puter and go sell power tools to people that probably don't need em.

REEEEEAEOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!

Sorry Kendall....though I'm in some agreement about car radios--if you can get a conversation going the radio becomes annoying and superfluous.

But that's a differenct topic--the death of common courtesy!

Willie-O