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In Reply to: Buy a sound meter to see if ears are at risk -- forget about the speakers! posted by Richard BassNut Greene on August 25, 2003 at 13:13:41:
As one who has occasional tinnitus, said to be caused by exposure to loud sound over a period of time, I know that one's ears are precious.In my experience, listening at levels that has the Rat Shack meter kicking around 80 to 85 dB is plenty loud.
In my one experience with frying speakers (courtesy of my daughter), the mid-woofer of my small two-way died before the tweeter (which survived). But, as they say, YMMV.
Remember that the Rat Shack meter is an average reading. It will not pick up short-term transients of brief duration that are louder, assuming that your system is capable of reproducing them.
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Follow Ups
- good advice! - Bruce from DC 14:39:43 08/25/03 (1)
- Re: good advice! - mfi 07:47:26 08/26/03 (0)
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