How loud do you listen?

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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    I think 115db is a bit too loud...better save your hearing and listen at a few db lower; just my opinion.
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited May 2007
    hearingimpared wrote: »
    Isn't pain threshold of a NORMAL human being 115 db?

    Define normal...

    And that's with HALF of the power I plan to use. I could probably go higher, but it starts breaking up, and those **** are expensive to fix. I think the extra power will allow me to reach my intended goal with much better control.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited May 2007
    amulford wrote: »
    Define normal...

    And that's with HALF of the power I plan to use. I could probably go higher, but it starts breaking up, and those **** are expensive to fix. I think the extra power will allow me to reach my intended goal with much better control.

    Is your intended goal deafness??:D :p
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 28,793
    edited May 2007
    Sterilization is actually the true goal..
    - 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
    Vr3MxStyler2k3 wrote: »
    Sterilization is actually the true goal..

    115db wouldn't do the trick..
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  • Schwingding
    Schwingding Posts: 363
    edited May 2007
    Was just checking that earlier tonight. 80-82db at about 9.5 feet for music.

    I have 10db of hearing loss between 2-8Khz though, from racing loud cars and boats, and constant tinnitus that is noticeable up to 50db before it gets drowned out by other sounds.
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  • Serendipity
    Serendipity Posts: 6,975
    edited May 2007
    Just checked today. Ever since I got my new speakers I listen a bit louder now, around 70-75db.
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  • goingganzo
    goingganzo Posts: 2,793
    edited May 2007
    when my ears start to blead i turn it up 1 more notch
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  • Lowell_M
    Lowell_M Posts: 1,660
    edited June 2007
    I just checked this weekend. When listening at a "comfortable" level for long term listening I seem to be around 85dB. When I am doing critical listening, or showing off my system, it looks like I am around 100dB. .....I haven't turned it up to "drunk party" levels yet to see yet, but 100dB was -18dB on my H/K and I generally end up ramping the volume up to -10dB when friends are over partying.
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