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General => General Music Discussion => Topic started by: Ħ on October 31, 2010, 03:02:30 AM
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If you're using an iPod, one % is roughly equivalent to 1 decibel.
I have heard that anything above 60 for more than an hour is dangerous to your hearing, but I still listen at very high levels. If I have noise cancelling headphones on me, I'll be in the 80-90 range, but if they are the standard iPod headphones, I usually turn it up to max or close to max...terrible for me, I know. :D
I just can't stand hearing anything else interrupting my music. I'll usually be listening to music at the gym, or riding my bike, and gyms/traffic are quite noisy...
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70-80
Sometimes it bothers me if it's too loud, but that's not very often.
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Whatever 11 is.
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A very interesting thread I must say, some time ago I heard a ringing noise because of an infection and that triggered me to really keep an eye on the volume of everything music. Right now I listen to my iPod at 0-10% with a pair of headphones that cover my ears completely.
The problem with hearing loss is, you'll regret it the moment you suffer from a condition. Before I had this infection I couldn't care less about protecting my hearing.
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No idea. Sometimes I'm in a loud mood and I crank it up. But most of my favourite genres are pretty quiet...(classical, ambient, experimental) so I'm guessing it evens out to around 50-60.
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Pretty quietly from speakers. I got a LOT of complaints from my neighbors when I first moved on my own and now I live with my spouse to-be so I'd rather be polite than crank it up every time. But still sometimes you just have to turn it up if the song or mood is really good :)
With headphones I usually listen quite loud. I've actually pondered about how many Db's the headphones actually produce since it feels soo loud often.
I also actually dislike people cranking up the volume in parties etc all the time. Like they couldn't hear the song if it was any silent. Most of the guys are musicians/avid music listeners though, so maybe they have already ruined their hearing and need to have it really loud to hear anything :) My spouse also likes to sing and usually has to put the volume really loud in order to do sing along. I dont mind a few songs of Blind Guardian but when its 10 Bon Jovis in a row really loud it gets on my nerve :)
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No idea about decibels. I listen 95% on headphones, and it's overall quite loud as I want to feel the POWER and hear all the details and subtleties, but not so loud to feel painful/dizzying/something like that.
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10/16 of the volume bars on the iPhone, which I guess is about 50-60. With speakers I fairly frequently have them on full volume, but I don't know how loud that is. It probably isn't true, but I feel like I'm at way less danger to my hearing from having my massive speakers on full volume than my in ears on 70% or above.
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It depends where I am.
At home on my stereo I have it loud enough that everything is clear, but not too loud so as to annoy my family as that'd just be inconsiderate.
On my iPod, it depends. If I'm at work or somewhere quiet I have it quite low. If I'm walking along the street I have it a bit louder, and if I'm on a train I have it louder again as it's particularly noisy.
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If I want it loud I aim for loudness before high frequency fuzz/distortion. I only use my headphones (not tiny earphones). Want to keep my hearing. But most times I have it at a moderate level, and on Windows XP that is the Master and Wave controls around 25-30%. Sometimes less if there is more compression than usual. Windows Vista would be around 15-20.
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10/16 of the volume bars on the iPhone, which I guess is about 50-60. With speakers I fairly frequently have them on full volume, but I don't know how loud that is. It probably isn't true, but I feel like I'm at way less danger to my hearing from having my massive speakers on full volume than my in ears on 70% or above.
I haven't yet tried full volume on my amplifier but I bet something would blow up in consequence, my standard listening volume is around 1/3. :lol
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Loud enough so I can't hear myself sing.
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As loud as I feel appropriate. Some music only sounds good when blasted, and some music needs to be kept at a low volume to retain dynamic range.
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I have it about 50% of what my MP3 player can go. That is not loud at all but I have been to a lot of concerts with no protection of my ears and sometimes, I worry if that will ever bite me in my ass.
edit: I just checked. I listen to it at 10-15 depending on my mood and surroundings and that is anywhere between 33% to 50%.
I don't think that is loud at all.
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As low of a setting as I can go and still hear it well. On my iPod it tends to be about 25% or so at home and 50% at work (lots of loud air movement).
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I used to be all about 100 percent, but now I'm way more of whatever the lowest I can get away with is.
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I'm often frustrated that my ipod isn't able to go loud enough. If you've any experience with ipods you'd know how loud that is. I've lost a lot of hearing from playing gigs and just generally blasting music. And I'm only 15, I can imagine what it will be like when I'm older. :-[
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I'm often frustrated that my ipod isn't able to go loud enough. If you've any experience with ipods you'd know how loud that is. I've lost a lot of hearing from playing gigs and just generally blasting music. And I'm only 15, I can imagine what it will be like when I'm older. :-[
Maybe you should start wearing earplugs? It seems that music is a pretty important part of your life, and I'd hate to see you lose it so young due to something completely preventable.
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I only wear headphones when I'm out walking, and usually when I walk I listen to classical or jazz (occasionally old prog), so volume isn't very important to me. At home on the weekends, I usually put on concert DVDs and I want concert volume in that case. Since I keep it confined to polite hours, most people don't complain.
Sadly, an old crippled fellow moved in behind me, and he's the sort to start pounding on the wall pretty quickly. I'll probably be moving pretty soon. Since he's old, I suspect he's going to run out the clock in that apartment, and due to the old/crippled qualities, I don't think management will be to accommodating to my concerns over his.
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I listen on my laptop at about 75%.
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On my macbook, 50% is already good, but in the ipod if it's not AT LEAST 70%, i just can't listen to the bass or keyboards in certain songs.
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When listening to headphones, usually between 6-10 out of 100 on my laptop, and usually 2-3 out of 20 on my Zune (up to 5 for songs recorded at a lower volume).
On my stereo, it's usually not above 10-15%, but with the volume I get with that, I can't imagine going much higher.
A friend of mine has a super high end stereo setup, where if you turned it up half way, it would probably deafen you, and in theory it would actually take out the windows before you hit 100. It makes for amazing sound at the lower levels though.
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At home, not too loud. In the car...well...let's just say....:2metal:
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At home, not too loud. In the car...well...let's just say....:2metal:
This. Fuck yeah
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However loud it needs to be to hear it clearly. I haven't really thought about it.
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I generally have the volume up roughly 3/4 as high as it can go.
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80-90
I either have it pumped up to max to cancel stuff out or to drum to.
Or, I have it around the middle range just when I'm walking around and I dont want to wreck my ears (too late, I know...)
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At home, not too loud. In the car...well...let's just say....:2metal:
Man, I love my car stereo. Not only does it sound quite good by car stereo standards, but it actually adjusts the volume of the music relative to how fast you're going. So it's not too quiet when you get on the highway, or too loud when you get back in town.
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I try too keep as low as I can. In my car it's a bit louder than at home.
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At home, not too loud. In the car...well...let's just say....:2metal:
Man, I love my car stereo. Not only does it sound quite good by car stereo standards, but it actually adjusts the volume of the music relative to how fast you're going. So it's not too quiet when you get on the highway, or too loud when you get back in town.
That's sweet! :metal
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My car actually does that. Though, it's fucking annoying with albums like Ki that have such a wide dynamic range.
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Going by the percentage thing, 31%, or 5 bars, on my laptop with headphones and anywhere from 25% to 75% on my iPod with ear canals.
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I'm not quite sure of the decibels, but I only listen to music in two ways.
Fairly nice computer speakers: about 60%
Car: around 70% volume
I don't really like headphones.
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Depends. Right now I'm playing my record of "Their Satanic Majesties Request" on vinyl at about 34. Earlier, I was blasting Deadwing on about 65.
And when I'm listening to MP3 players its almost always somewhere between 80-100.
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80-90 most of the time. I hate to hear other sounds when I listen to music.
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Even when I was younger, I was never obsessed with cranking it up all the time. Sure, sometimes you want to feel it was well as hear it. But usually I just have it loud enough to hear all the parts, then up one notch, whatever that is.
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Normally I listen to music as low as possible while still being able to hear everything. When I have my headphones hooked up to my computer, I use normally less than 10% or so of the volume.
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Depends. In the car I usually have some windows down and blast it pretty damn loud. When running, walking, etc. I have it at maybe 40-50%. Enough to fill my ears but just faint enough to hear some of what's going on around me.
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Depends, but usually only as loud as it needs to be for me to hear it. The only time I'll crank it past that is if I feel the music requires it to be louder, like in some really awesome metal parts (2nd half of Blackwater Park for example), or most noise/drone music.
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That just reminded me, Sigz. I usually fall asleep listening to Glacial and Haze on Molotov and Haze by Bass Communion. I usually just shuffle the songs around until it's just those two quiet tracks to lull me peacefully to sleep.
Last night I forgot to turn off the "repeat" button, so I woke up to Molotov suddenly in the middle of the night to violently that I fell off of my bed.
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Extremely loud in the car, moderate at home, and quietly when I'm sleeping/studying/etc.
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I hate to hear other sounds when I listen to music.
Same here. Even minor noises like rain or sound of fan. My earphones do the trick though.
60-70. I could go louder but I try to protect my ears.
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I hate hearing other people's music through their headphones even when I'm like 5 metres away from them, disturbing. Those people have their music too loud and are going to end up like Beethoven.. without the epic composing ability ofc. I have my volume at the equilibrium where people can't hear it from my headphones but it's still loud enough for me to isolate myself in it.
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Anyone who listens to music on earphones so loud that people can hear it from even a few feet away is destroying their ears. The first time I got a real set of earphones, I couldn't believe it. I knew the free "earbuds" that come with an iPod were crap, but I had no idea. How can a 1/8" speaker in each ear actually produce decent bass? It seems to defy some law of physics or something. I also couldn't believe how well they blocked outside sounds, like earplugs but with little speakers in them. I've gone to sporting events with my iPod, and can listen to tunes just fine, while blocking out the crowd noise and everything else just fine.
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I don't know it for sure, but I guess it's between 50 and 60 dB most of the time. Sometimes I just have to crank certain songs.
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Pretty fucking loud
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I hate hearing other people's music through their headphones even when I'm like 5 metres away from them, disturbing. Those people have their music too loud and are going to end up like Beethoven.. without the epic composing ability ofc. I have my volume at the equilibrium where people can't hear it from my headphones but it's still loud enough for me to isolate myself in it.
Yep hate that too.
Anyone who listens to music on earphones so loud that people can hear it from even a few feet away is destroying their ears. The first time I got a real set of earphones, I couldn't believe it. I knew the free "earbuds" that come with an iPod were crap, but I had no idea. How can a 1/8" speaker in each ear actually produce decent bass? It seems to defy some law of physics or something. I also couldn't believe how well they blocked outside sounds, like earplugs but with little speakers in them. I've gone to sporting events with my iPod, and can listen to tunes just fine, while blocking out the crowd noise and everything else just fine.
They obviously think it's cool to destroy your hearing :lol
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Another thing to chalk up to "young and stupid". Most young people haven't had anything particularly horrible happen to them, so they feel that they are immortal. (They haven't yet learned that this is only for a limited time.) So they do insane things like listen to music really fucking loud because it feels awesome to have that bass pounding through your chest.
And since it take years of this abuse, 10 or 20 years usually, before the damage becomes apparent, you don't notice it. Sure, you're a little deaf after going to a concert or something, but your hearing returns after a day or two. What you don't notice is that each time it comes back just a little bit short of where it was before. The cilia in your ears do wear out eventually, leaving you deaf to whatever frequencies they used to receive. I learned this when I was in high school, and made the decision right then to protect my hearing. Music means more to me than anything else in the world, and I want to enjoy it as long as I live.
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As loud as I feel appropriate. Some music only sounds good when blasted, and some music needs to be kept at a low volume to retain dynamic range.
This, though probably far too much on the high end for me.
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Can't say I've ever thought to measure.
It's rarely particularly quietly, but rarely intrusively loud. At its loudest, it's just loud enough to drown out my singing if I'm sitting near the speaker. Plenty over speaking volume, but never rattling the floorboards. At its quietest, it's about speaking volume - which I guess would be about 30dB?
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Can't say I've ever thought to measure.
It's rarely particularly quietly, but rarely intrusively loud. At its loudest, it's just loud enough to drown out my singing if I'm sitting near the speaker. Plenty over speaking volume, but never rattling the floorboards. At its quietest, it's about speaking volume - which I guess would be about 30dB?
Yeah that's a good level.
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For songs like The Drapery Falls, I like to crank my volume up because it's just so fucking epic. But for some songs, I don't really care about the volume, like Tom Sawyer.
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........What did you say?
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Can't say I've ever thought to measure.
It's rarely particularly quietly, but rarely intrusively loud. At its loudest, it's just loud enough to drown out my singing if I'm sitting near the speaker. Plenty over speaking volume, but never rattling the floorboards. At its quietest, it's about speaking volume - which I guess would be about 30dB?
I think I've read somewhere that a "healthy" level to listen at should be quiet enough so that you could hear someone talking normally beside you, so you should be fine in that respect.
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Something that amazes me is how loud the music is in restaurants nowadays. We used to hit places like Applebee's and Bennigan's, which are restaurant/bar combos, but I guess the idea nowadays is to make the whole place a bar. The music is so loud that you literally have to yell at the person next to you so that they can hear you over the music, and you can just forget about talking to the people across the table from you; it's just not gonna happen.
The server comes to take your order, and he/she has to scream, and when you try to give your order, you also have to scream. That doesn't work anyway, so you end up holding the menu and pointing at things. What the fuck? Do people really like having the music this fucking loud? What is the point? Is it more "cool" or more "fun" when the music is so loud that you can't actually have a conversation?
Basically, we've stopped going to places like that. And maybe it's a coincidence, but the two Applebee's and the two Bennigan's nearest us have all closed in the past couple of years. Sure, the economy is bad right now, but certainly it doesn't help if you run a place that is simply unpleasant for customers.
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Something that amazes me is how loud the music is in restaurants nowadays. We used to hit places like Applebee's and Bennigan's, which are restaurant/bar combos, but I guess the idea nowadays is to make the whole place a bar. The music is so loud that you literally have to yell at the person next to you so that they can hear you over the music, and you can just forget about talking to the people across the table from you; it's just not gonna happen.
The server comes to take your order, and he/she has to scream, and when you try to give your order, you also have to scream. That doesn't work anyway, so you end up holding the menu and pointing at things. What the fuck? Do people really like having the music this fucking loud? What is the point? Is it more "cool" or more "fun" when the music is so loud that you can't actually have a conversation?
Basically, we've stopped going to places like that. And maybe it's a coincidence, but the two Applebee's and the two Bennigan's nearest us have all closed in the past couple of years. Sure, the economy is bad right now, but certainly it doesn't help if you run a place that is simply unpleasant for customers.
When my kid was a toddler we always looked for a loud restaurant to drown out all the noise he would be making. Now that he's 11 we can go to nice places where you must have manners. And watch him play around with a $20 piece of of meat.
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We used to hit "family restaurants" when the kids were younger. Places like IHOP, Denny's, or Big Boy, where the idea is that kids are okay and there will be a certain amount of noise. I've never liked places that are just plain loud. If my kids make too much noise, we leave.
Durg, is your avatar a Yes Union cover with an evil candy corn?
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Tuff question to answer directly so here are my answers
1- In the car if it is something I am really into and not just background music i play loud very way to loud lol but this is not that often .
2- At home I listen to it low due to condo life
3- This is 85 % of the way I listen to music on headphones Since i got pretty decent set I even off all my tunes using mp3 gain and i have the tunes set to just under max volume so you don’t have to crank up the% volume all the way , but i keep it just enough to hear all the lows and highs just right usually a little over 1/4 volume bar
Anyway it depends on the equipment you use to get the effect i want
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We used to hit "family restaurants" when the kids were younger. Places like IHOP, Denny's, or Big Boy, where the idea is that kids are okay and there will be a certain amount of noise. I've never liked places that are just plain loud. If my kids make too much noise, we leave.
Durg, is your avatar a Yes Union cover with an evil candy corn?
I added the evil candy corn for Halloween. I guess I'll put a turkey on next. ;D
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I don't listen loud at all to music, don't see the point. And it's annoying when my neighbours do it.