[LAD] twice as loud

[Ralf Mardorf]

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
> 
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