Fighting with "loud music"

My husband is a Lp turntables enthusiast. After retirement, he spends most of his time hiding in his work place tweaking his beloved turntables. Very often, he "makes appearance"only during meal times. And this is also no more a voluntary action; the hunger sensors in his stomach automatically shut down when his brain is at work.

He enjoys not just spinning vinyls on the turntables, but the whole process of tweaking to improve the performance of each of his turntables irrespective of the tediousness or troubles involved. To continue his "nonsense" in peace without my interference, he has also made a statement: "every man should have some time to himself and for his own hobby. "

So I just leave him alone to do what he likes.  Fair enough, I also pursue in my own hobby and he is not intervening either.

In theory there should be no complaints. The only problem is I am forced to listen to his "music "(loud, interrupted while tweaking) all day long. This is no joke as we don't have a sound-proof room solely for this purpose.

Can you imagine how is it like when each time I try to enjoy a TV drama? 

"Could you please tone down your music............". Very reasonable request, right?

"Sorry....sorry......" the music went softer. But after a while as he made some new adjustments, he forgot and increased the volume again.

"Please tone down your music............". Again I would be reminding him.

"Sorry....sorry......".  I could not blame him as when he was really engrossed in his work, every other thing would be completely out of his mind (including people around him).

So this "story" of ours went on and on with no end ............

What about increasing the volume of the TV? Simple physics, more sound interference produced! I gave up soon; I just "mute" the TV and follow the drama by reading the subtitles. Not the best solution, but at least could avoid unnecessary conflicts between us. 

This went on for quite some time until..............

One day, my second daughter returned home. She saw me sitting on the couch watching TV. But she could only hear her dad's loud concerto music from the Lp player.

" Oh, my God, I don't believe this ......." she jumped at the father, " Dad, your music is too loud. Do you know your music is so loud that mum has to mute her TV? This is unfair! "

"What?? Sorry, sorry...., I really didn't know about it. " He really felt sorry this time.

After this incidence, he is much more careful now so as not to disturb me while experimenting on his turntables.

So, it's not always true that we have to fight hard to get our way through.