[LAD] twice as loud

Renato rennabh at gmail.com
Sat Jul 24 16:16:55 UTC 2010


On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:03:15 -0400
Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

yes, especially if coupled with drugs which seems to me to be an
increasing trend

renato



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