How loud do you listen?

Serendipity
Serendipity Posts: 6,975
edited June 2007 in Speakers
Hi,

Just wondering how loud you guys listen around here.

I'm usually around 65-70db.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited May 2007
    Too loud:o
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  • cbl117
    cbl117 Posts: 285
    edited May 2007
    Thats funny, I was going to post the exact question.

    I listen at 80dB with peaks up to 85dB. Thats about 10 feet from the speakers in a 400 SF room.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,231
    edited May 2007
    Sometimes when I am done listening, my ears ring.

    I have no fatigue while listening, though. Does that answer your question?:D
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  • Yashu
    Yashu Posts: 772
    edited May 2007
    Not loud. I live in an apartment. You can see my setup in the system showcase.

    I like basically sensitive speakers that can resolve detail at lower volumes. I have tried a ton of different ones, some need to be turned up "louder" to hear certain detail... those I don't like.

    I had a sub (actually tried several), and it was too loud unless I turned it almost all the way down... Then it was almost like "why do I need a sub?" if I had to turn it almost completely down to enjoy it. (Room placement was not the answer, I tried every reasonable location) I ended up selling it on e-bay.
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited May 2007
    118 db from 3 yards away :cool: :cool: :cool: .
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited May 2007
    My listening levels rise until ppl get uncomfortable and start to leave my house, then I back it down and chill out.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited May 2007
    dorokusai wrote: »
    My listening levels rise until ppl get uncomfortable and start to leave my house, then I back it down and chill out.

    ...the same for me, and I usually get into a Polka or Opera mood until they're gone.
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  • Monster Jam
    Monster Jam Posts: 919
    edited May 2007
    Huh? Did someone say something?
    Do you hear that buzzing noise? :confused:
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  • NeilGabriel
    NeilGabriel Posts: 1,487
    edited May 2007
    I generally have my amp on 11.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited May 2007
    I dont listen to loud... :)

    Depends on the song and the music. The best listening is late night -- you can hear everything at moderate volumes. Awesome stuff.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited May 2007
    Easy, as loud as i want. No parents, kids or apartment. Lifes good!!!! Isn't the Audio world better with no limits.................:p
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    I dont listen to loud... :)

    Depends on the song and the music. The best listening is late night -- you can hear everything at moderate volumes. Awesome stuff.

    90db isn't loud?
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited May 2007
    90db isnt very loud...

    90db is moderate levels... you can listen for like over an hour before any damage can occur and I usually listen around 45ish minutes at a time...

    I've been in a room where there were 125db peaks and 115db continuous --- mids and highs. Not even counting bass.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    I thought your system was loud. What do the neighbors think?
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited May 2007
    My neighbors are like 100 feet away... they dont even know I have a stereo.
    - Not Tom ::::::: Any system can play Diana Krall. Only the best can play Limp Bizkit.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    I forgot about that.
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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited May 2007
    NeilGabriel wrote: »
    I generally have my amp on 11.

    Damn, My amp only goes to 10. That must be loud.
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  • MikeC78
    MikeC78 Posts: 2,315
    edited May 2007
    a_mattison wrote: »
    Damn, My amp only goes to 10. That must be loud.

    I was thinking the same, how ironic.;)
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited May 2007
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=25228&d=1180402069

    Wisper soft:D
    Please. Please contact me a ben62670 @ yahoo.com. Make sure to include who you are, and you are from Polk so I don't delete your email. Also I am now physically unable to work on any projects. If you need help let these guys know. There are many people who will help if you let them know where you are.
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited May 2007
    If the better half is home, not loud at all. When she isn't home, the windows bulge, the dogs hide, and the birds leave the surrounding woods.:D
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  • bbeacham
    bbeacham Posts: 141
    edited May 2007
    Watched the new King Kong late Sunday night, early Monday morning, and measured the level with Radio Shack digital SPL meter. It was playing around 92db, with lots of power in reserve. Even though I am in a house, I am sure my neighbors "heard" at least the sub-woofer part.

    However, this was louder than usual for me.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited May 2007
    98 to 110 db.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,606
    edited May 2007
    treitz3 wrote: »
    Sometimes when I am done listening, my ears ring.

    I have no fatigue while listening, though. Does that answer your question?:D


    Be carefull. That might not go away. That's your ears crying for help.
    There was a headphone guy that had the same complaint. A year later,
    He was selling all his stuff cheap. The ringing decided to set up shop in his head. Now the good part,
    boy did I get a good deal!:D

    Normally, I don't go loud. With the new tube setup, low volume now sounds very good.
    I should of started out with glass!
    "The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." --Thomas Jefferson
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  • MSALLA
    MSALLA Posts: 1,602
    edited May 2007
    volume at -22
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  • sickicw
    sickicw Posts: 456
    edited May 2007
    appadv wrote: »
    Hi,

    Just wondering how loud you guys listen around here.

    I'm usually around 65-70db.


    On average, I tended to turn the volume up more as I add more and more bass panels. It seems to make the louder volume much easy to listen too as it kills all of the reflective waves…. I still don’t turn it up too loud though unless I’m rocking out for a few minuets before I head off to work….
    Speakers: LSi9 x 2, LSic, LSiFX x 2, Velodyne HGS-15
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited May 2007
    As loud as I want to at the moment. I max out at 115 at times, but I forget what that's like right now...
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    I've been in a room where there were 125db peaks and 115db continuous --- mids and highs. Not even counting bass.

    That's loud.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited May 2007
    amulford wrote: »
    As loud as I want to at the moment. I max out at 115 at times, but I forget what that's like right now...

    Isn't pain threshold of a NORMAL human being 115 db?
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited May 2007
    ben62670 wrote: »
    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=25228&d=1180402069

    Wisper soft:D

    Don't let him play you. Check out his Sonasub article http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51533 where he tried to make his ears bleed. LOL:D
    engtaz

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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,231
    edited May 2007
    sucks2beme wrote: »
    Be carefull. That might not go away. That's your ears crying for help. There was a headphone guy that had the same complaint. A year later, he was selling all his stuff cheap. The ringing decided to set up shop in his head.
    I have had ringing in my head [or ears] since I entered this hobby at the ripe age of 13-14 or so. Headphones, jackhammers, stereos, concerts, races....it doesn't seem to me that "ringing" matters much as I am now 37+ years old. Eventually, yeah........I won't be able to hear [maybe]. I hope and pray that won't happen, but if it does, I know that I will have lived my audio life to the fullest. To me, that 's what matters [hobby speakin'].

    My mom used to hear my headphones when I was downstairs playing music at my young age and she would come down, yell at me to turn it down [even though the TV was on upstairs in the living room where she was watching....on the opposite side of the house]. Yes, my ears would be ringing, but I could never figure out how in the hell she could hear what my headphones were producing downstairs with a closed door between the floors. It's like she had a freakin' radar or something.

    Now, what was it you were saying? I didn't hear you.:eek:
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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