On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:22 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Saturday 24 July 2010 16:22:29 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:07 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > I have gotten up and left many a night club because the music was too > > > loud. > > > > OT, but anyway: This is a big problem in Germany. I only visit night > > clubs when a girlfriend 'force' me to do it and I always wear hearing > > protection. Now it becomes topic again: At those high levels, I don't > > have any feeling for what could be half as loud. I only have an idea of > > 'half as loud', when the acoustic pressure doesn't hurt. > > That is because your ear shuts down with a bone bending to protect itself to > anything above. That bending is what hurts... > So you hearing goes into saturation for anything above that level. Which > makes > it quite hard to determine "half as loud" when you don't know how loud it > really is... > > Have fun, > > Arnold
So, without being aware of it, I know that I don't know the real loudness. Is it the same for everybody or just for people who have the feeling to protect their ears, resp. to get out of this loudness hell? A lot of people 'join' this hell. What's about those people? - Ralf _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
