Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler hearing loss?

Yeah, I recently went up to the safety office at my work and got some earplugs for work/ect. We do dam safety inspections periodically and some of those inspections are spent inside hydropower plants. The spinning turbines can get LOUD, so earplugs are a must.

I use over the head (ear muff style) hearing protetion at work. We do road work and run jackhammers a lot, so it's a must. I even use them at home when running any type of power equipment.

Bummer. Maybe that's why I've taken to listening more closely to midrange lately. When I asked what's next he said expect the dip to go beyond 10hz. How long and when he couldn't say. Not much we can do about it.

You can all rest comfortable with the fact that hearing is yet another illusion.

I think my wife has is especially sensitive to loud volumes as well. She of course claims that I just can't hear, but no one else ever complains that it is too loud. Maybe we'll both do the hearing test someday to get the final word on it.

Interesting thread. I need to get tested again and see if any technology based solutions have addressed one of my items. Coupled with some upper bass/midrange deficiencies, I also have a compression issue.

Imagine 2 sounds sources, one say at 70 db, and another at 90 db. I effectively hear them close to the same level.

God I hate it. In a mtg, someone is talking next to me, then some at the end of the table talks just above a whisper to their neighbor. It's all the same level and I can't make heads or tails out of either

Then couple that with some sensitivity in the higher end (yes I can tell you if florescent lights are on behind the close door with some certainty),,,,

so when someone whispers across the room it sounds likethey are talking loud right next to you?

Are you sure you aren't Superman?

Yeah, I definitely thought superhero with powers out of his control.

Not really with whispers across the room, but say a private muted conversation at the far end of table is the same perceived loudness as the person addressing the room. Its not that I can hear low volumes well, its just that louder volumes are somewhat normalized to the lower volumes.

Does that help?

That's not pleasant.