Sound room humidity


Hello all. I am wondering if any of you use a humidifier in your sound room and level of humidity do you try to maintain? Is 35% a reasonable number? Thank you. 

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No. Humidity is not really an issue unless it becomes extreme. Here in Florida with the house always closed and the AC system always set to dehumidify we are lucky to get under 60% RH. I see the same concern on camera forums where people are buying dry cabinets just because they bought a new camera and are new to the hobby. Same for stereo stuff. I'm still using gear from the 1980s as are most of my friends who are into audio. Just not an issue unless you are above about 75% regularly and that also becomes an issue for structures :-) 

Personally I find 55% feels too humid.  I'd keep it at 50% here year round if I could.  :) 

It depends on the temperature.  It's called "relative" humidity.  A 50% relative humidity at 80 degrees contains much more moisture than 50% relative humidity at 65 degrees.  The higher the temperature, the more moisture it can contain.  Dewpoint is a better measure, particularly when determing what it "feels like".  As to how this applies to audio, I have no opinion/knowledge.

I watched an interesting video on Rick Beato’s site, he was interviewing a sound guy who did live concert sound. He mentioned that they must take humidity into consideration when setting up the sound in the live event as it effects the sound quite a bit. He gave no humidity levels, but it makes sense.

Interesting, never really thought about humidity changing sound. Usually do it for comfort, static reasons. 

Here in the PNW, we have had a colder winter, humidity has dropped into the 20%, my skin hates it, my plants hate it, my TT really hates it. Been running my humidifier 12+ hours a day on high. Got the humidity around 45% now. Can't say I notice a sound difference. But I have thinking "my system sounds really good" lately.