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Has gear or a recording ever made your ears hot?

We've all had the experience of listening to electronics or speakers that were far too bright, or accentuated some frequency so much we had to run out of the room but have you ever felt your ears get literally hot from listening?

Like your outer ear feels like it's got an electric blanket on it. It's not a pleasant feeling at all. 

If you've had this experience, what did you attribute it to?

erik_squires

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larryro2
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Hi

the Tensor Tympani muscle is in the middle ear

not the inner ear. It has a latency of about 40 Msec. The stapidius muscle which is also in the middle ear is much faster and has a latency of about 10 msec and a threshold of about 85dBSPL. The stapedius muscle will activate at 85 and saturate at about 120 dBSPL and at frequencies below 1000Hz.

 

 

 

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