Re: [LAD] twice as loud

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

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