In 2015 I had Shingles of the facial nerve
(Ramsay Hunt Syndrome) and it caused me to
lose 100% of my hearing on the right. Some
came back but I have a -85 dB loss in my
right ear and what I do hear is not what
you hear but attenuated. Noise of any kind
makes it difficult to hear and I
To add to what Don said,
Restaurant noise levels are a plague for me. With my hearing loss
the noise level just shoves everything to sound like noise with no
intelligence detectable.
I note that some now have cc activated on TV's with sound turned down
to keep background sound lowered.
Ted,
I am not going to comment on the dB aspect, but the XYL and I have had
great success in restaurants by asking the staff to turn down the music
(or TV or whatever was making electronic sound). In many restaurants,
it seems that the staff want to listen to *their* music over the din of
It's been 50 years since I worked in the acoustic labs at Boeing where I posed
the same question. One of the specialists in the passenger accommodation
section of the lab explained it this way: the human ear is a SUBJECTIVE and
dynamic instrument. In other words, the perception of sound
Most human perception is logarithmic. A change in OVERALL LOUDNESS of
about 10 dB is perceived as twice (or half) as loud.
Changes in SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO as small as 1 dB can be the difference
between copy or not. This is true for music as well as speech or CW.
When mixing live sound with
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