[LAD] twice as loud

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday, July 24, 2010 12:02:40 pm Ralf Mardorf did opine:

> 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?

I think many of them use it as an anesthetic.
> 
> - Ralf
> 
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