On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:02:40 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine: > 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?
I think many of them use it as an anesthetic. > > - Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev -- 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) Ain't nothin' an old man can do for me but bring me a message from a young man. -- Moms Mabley _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
