On Saturday, July 24, 2010 09:56:32 am Jörn Nettingsmeier did opine: > On 07/22/2010 11:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Extrapolating a bit, that is one of the reasons why an > > unamplified singer in an opera theatre can have a dramatic > > effect that is much stronger than someone yelling into a > > microphone and being amplified to 130 dB SPL. By which I > > don't want to imply that amplified music is wrong in any > > sense. > > *anything* at 130 dB SPL is wrong in any sense. :p
My personal limit is about 120. If its loud enough to hurt, it is hurting, and I have gotten up and left many a night club because the music was too loud. I wore out the first 3 rifle barrels at the target range before one could buy decent ear muffs, and most of whats on the market today don't have the protection required. I consider 30db a minimum. So now, 45 years later I have what are called Carhart Notches in my hearing, 120 db deep at 4 khz. I blew the hearing tester away when she was checking me a while back, she was at full scale with the test tone at 4 khz but all I could hear was the circuits white noise. Which I heard quite easily. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." -- Vince Lombardi, football coach _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
