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Re: What happens when you expose yourself to loud noise without hearing protection?

Well Morricab, since you've heard that violin in both small rooms and presumably when she performed at a concert in a hall, you know that the sound is very different. In a small room, the power of that instrument expresses itself in being very loud but when you are sitting farther away than you could in your apartment or a practice room, while the instrument is softer, it sounds every bit as powerful because it fills a vast space in time, a second or more for each note to die out. And the tone is different too, it's just as clear but mellower. That's the effect of the acoustics of the hall. And if you had a sound system capable of it, and most are not, you might get it to sound like you heard it in an apartment but I assure you with our current technology, you will NEVER get it to sound like it does in the concert hall. That's because unless and until you can duplicate the acoustics, you will not duplicate the tone. I've been working on that problem on and off for 32 years and it is a far more interesting one than which cable or how much feedback sounds better or whether tubes or transistors are better. I can tell you this much from data on about 200 concert halls, the integrated ILG fan response for just about all of them starts falling off at about 2 to 4 khz and is down about 7 to 10 db by 10 khz. Put another way, the RT at 10 khz often runs about 1.2 seconds but at 1 khz it's often 1.8 to 2.5 seconds. Until you can duplicate that, you won't duplicte the tone and until you can duplicate the sense of space and the insturment filling it up in time, you won't duplicate the power of a live performance either, especially a large instrument or group like a symphony orchestra, a chorus, or a pipe organ. If you want to hear that sound, you'll have to hear it live.

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