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I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume?

I suppose this is an open question to any of you fine people, but I'm exclusively analog myself and particularly curious to hear from those of you who listen to records.

What would you say is your normal listening volume? Perhaps measure it and post the db's?

Thanks!

thebrokenrecord

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dwette
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75 db +-10, more or less. Maybe some peaks into 90-95 db when I play large scale orchestra music, but nothing louder than that. I use the NIOSH SLM iOS app to measure.

dwette
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@audiorusty

The last time I measured I was hitting peaks at 119 dbc at slightly under 9’ away.

I don’t believe that for a sewcond. That’s ear bleed, ear damaging volume. Surely there is a problem with how you measure. 120 dB marks the limit from which sounds become painful and very dangerous to the human ear.

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