drmatt wrote: > An extreme case, but some pipe organs can hit 130db. > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pipe_organs > > This is close up values obviously, attenuation occurs with distance. > > I also see some references to wind instruments that can hit 115db. > > Sent from my ONEPLUS A3003 using Tapatalk
Morning Doc! Unfortunately a lot of the physical locations of such instruments (i.e. churches, cathedrals) are not very well insulated from external noise sources & the natural acoustic of such settings will probably make the effect of such noise leakage worse. For example, the Messiaen organ recordings from Notre Dame cathedral I already mentioned (somewhere!) in which you can hear the noise of passing traffic. So Julf's best case estimate of 35dB background noise is quite likely to be exceeded. Anyway, as he points out there's 11dB to spare in the 16bit dynamic range which would still accommodate your organ (:D !), just... Unless you live in a very quiet & isolated location the noise level in your listening room is likely to exceed 35dB, & you'd probably get busted for making 96dB on top of whatever it is! I suspect that your hearing would also suffer if you did this regularly as well - a lot of bass players get tinnitus from standing too close to their speaker stacks (you'd think they'd stand somewhere else, but bass players do seem to be a breed apart ;) ). Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
