Re: Listening levels: How loud do you listen?
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I was there when we peaked at 100 dB or so, which we were informed was "not that loud."
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Heh. I've soundproofed the door in my dorm room. That way my "loud" listening levels don't bother everyone else.
When playing the Blue Man Group:Audio DVD-A album, people all around the dorm could hear my sub.
I measured outside my room once with the door open, 70 db.
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Wait, wait... you're in college and you listen to the Blue Man Group? Isn't it in the dorm contract somewhere you HAVE to listen to Op Ivy or Sleater-Kinney?
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I'm late to this post I guess. As John, Peter, Ken, and Adam state, I do tend to run the system at levels that most seem to consider very loud. However I do have a number of friends that listen to the system and are comfortable with the level.
In the size of area we have here, if I run the system at the 75 - 85 level that seems to be the most common level, when seated, the investment in the sound system has been a waste. I may as well put back in the cheap boxed HT system.lol In normal listening its running between 85 -95, with peaks of 100 or so. If I'm in other parts of the house or the back yard, ya I push the volume up beyound the 100 level, have had peaks of 115-120, but I'm not sitting right in front of the speakers.
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See, the rest of us would just get other speakers... say, a set outside, in our car, etc.
Dennis took a different (epicentre) approach - if he's in the house, he plays his system in the 85dB range, if he's outside, he plays it at 115dB, when he visits Seattle, he turns it up to 400dB.
Bren R.
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LOL You figured out my reasoning, good one Bren !
Also the system here runs more than what may be considered common, the Halos are rarely shut down ( I'm doing my share to bail out PG&E here in CA), and muisc is usually going 10 - 12 hours per day. So the sound systems here do have a lot of use, I'm not just collecting components.
I'll have to post some pictures of the system in my workshop, not a real expenisve system..................5.1 with a 15" Sharp LCD, and the old Tivo unit. But lately I never have time to work on the hobbies in the barn.
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I'm just bass-ackwards I think... I sit in front of computers for 16 hours a day and have Edirol Monitors on those (MA-15D and MA-20D), but the TV I sit in front of for 2 hours a week has the home theatre.
And yes, decided I'm moving up to M60s sometime (maybe fall?) so I may repurpose the M3s into computer speakers. Now where are those Axiom electronics, Ian?!?
Bren R.
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