How many decibels?

[tarior]

Back before my SPL meter broke, when listening to Rakoczi March on Telarc, the nominal was around 85-90dB. The crescendo was in the 120dB range.

 

[Hull Rust]

What ist SFO?

San Francisco airport.

 

[Auto Analog]

On average, my listening level varies from about 65-90. These days, 90 is loud enough.

 

[sqlsavior]

Normal listening (dBA):
Min: 28.6 Leq 57.2 Max 67.3

Louder listening (dBA):
Min: 30.2 Leq 69.2 Max 81.5

 

[twiiii]

You have to watch Telarc and Reference recordings. Their average levels are recorded at a lower volume than most other classical discs because they don't compressthe signal and there's another 10 db or so of headroom on the disc than labels like Deutsche Gramophone, Chandos, Phillips, Sony, etc.

 

[Hufsredo]

Check this out at -30db on your attenuator. typical levels for me about -40 to -35db

 

[Powertech]

Anyone seen this? http://dr.loudness-war.info/ And it has a search function

 

[imral3]

Anyone seen this? http://dr.loudness-war.info/ And it has a search function

WOW!!! I love it! In addition to searching you can click on the DR headings to sort them also.

 

[GSS61]

oops posted in wrong thread LOL

 

[Grafenstein]

San Francisco airport.

Ok, thanks

 

[sqlsavior]

Right now, playing Leonard Cohen's Closing Time:

Min:29.4 Leq 54.7 Max 64.7 (dBA)

Using SPLnFFT on my iPhone 6

 

[RTally]

Listening to Pandora in my home office. No music: 33 dB. Max music: 56 dB.

Using Decibel X on my iPhone 6s.

 

[CapZark]

Normal for me is about 85 to 90 dB about 12 feet back from my Klipsch La Scalas. That draws about 1/2 watt of power out of my Pioneer SX-1980. Rocking when mama isn't home runs about 103 to 105 dB, which might drive the 1980 over 1 watt or so, Rockin' hard for limited periods (1 or two songs max,) I might go 110 dB, which takes about 8 to 10 watts of power. Anything over that is just silly stupid and I can only handle it for a few seconds of so. I might see the UV flirt with 50 watts in that case.