A single violin player, a sax player and some percussion playing in a 25 by 30 room, which pretty much happens every weekend or so in my house will easily be the loudest thing guys on this thread might hear, it appears... if they are listening @70db and calling it loud.
I have been in several studios with artists and mastering techs at the instant some final listening tests happened before what is deemed as a final product...If you all are thinking that your 70db levels are the artists’ intent, you are flat out wrong again. The studios get relatively loud even for me.
i don’t invite ’audiophiles" over or do any listening with them anymore for the same reason/one reason.... It is a..lets just leave it there...and no, the collective set of all musicians in the world didn’t all go deaf by now. They have much better hearing than the regular masses. I am in my 50s and have the same hearing i had in ny 20s, last i checked.
This thread appears to be completely detached from the world of real music or musicians.
0 -70dB Normal piano practice
70dB Fortissimo Singer, 3’
75 - 85dB Chamber music, small auditorium
84 - 103dB Piano Fortissimo
82 - 92dB Violin
85 -111dB Cello
95-112dB Oboe
92 -103dB Flute
90 -106dB Piccolo
85 - 114dB Clarinet
90 - 106dB French horn
85 - 114dB Trombone
106dB Tympani & bass drum
94dB Walkman on 5/10
120 - 137dB Symphonic music peak
150dB Rock music peak
This is just wrong in that it considers neither distance nor directionality.
The sound emitted from a woodwind expands in a whole different set