How Loud is Loud?
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I have seen a number of posts where folks talk about listening to loud movies/ music. Well, I was wondering how loud is loud?
This evening we watched the Aviator and I sat the Radio Shack meter down and watched it for a while. Anything over 80 dB was a little too loud for us. Fluctuations between 70 and 76 dB seemed about right.
I'm going to measure it again when I watch NASCAR and they say "turn it up!"
For those of you who have meters, how loud do you normally listen to your movies/ music?
The Rat.
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There is an 80-ish dB crowd, a 90-ish dB crowd, and a 100-ish dB crowd.
I'm in the 90 dB crowd. You're in the 80 dB crowd. Most of the people in the 100 dB crowd have M80s and/or separate power amps.
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I'm in the 90-100 dB crowd, but I use headphones mostly so no problems with amplification here.
Otitis media sucks. My 95 dB is someone else's 89 dB, and in the bad ear, maybe even 85. It's something I'm trying to get fixed before I buy a hi-fi. A lot of people who play music loud aren't doing it to deafen themselves, but to listen at normal levels with their hearing loss.
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I'm in the 70-80 crowd, I think. Although Dennis's system was quite impressive around 100 dB!
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I'm in the 90db plus club.
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WOW!!!! 100dB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had NO idea how really loud that was until I tried this little experiment.
At my listening levels, I guess that there is NO chance that I will "damage" my old Kenwood receiver with the M80s.
Have a GREAT day.
The Rat.
M80s, VP-150, QS8s,
SVS PC 20-39+, OPPO,
Onkyo 703s, Harmony 880
Sony 60" SXRD HDTV
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jack always knows where the cool links are!!
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Old people are like that ya know.
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