Piped-in music in most restaurants often sounds like someone has jacked up the tone controls. Either both treble and bass all the way up, or sometimes treble all the way up and bass all the way down. Either way there are no mids, just a hashy one-note treble sizzle, sometimes accompanied by a one-note-bass boom. Combined with the usual "warehouse chic" decor of metal ceiling, masonry walls and concrete floors, and the aural soundscape should qualify as a form of assault. There's one Indian restaurant here with midrange, and amazingly the music seems both more intelligible and less intrusive.