On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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
join should be enjoy ... sorry, broken English > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
