Re: [LAD] twice as loud

From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net>
Date: Sat Jul 24 2010 - 19:03:00 EEST

On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:46 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:44 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 17:22 +0200, Arnold Krille wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > So, without being aware of it, I know that I don't know the real
> > loudness. Is it the same for everybody or just for people who have the
> > feeling to protect their ears, resp. to get out of this loudness hell?
> >
> > A lot of people 'join' this hell. What's about those people?
> >
> > - Ralf
>
> join should be enjoy ... sorry, broken English

Sorry for this PS, I try to learn not to write such a high amount of
mails :(, but it could be important.

Does my brain guess the loudness is or could be endless high? Half of an
endless value would be anyway an endless value, right?

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