[LAD] twice as loud

[Ralf Mardorf]

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