I was going to warn you on the hazards of listening at those levels, but at your age, screw it. Or does your hearing require those levels? Not asked facetiously.
If I get a chance, I'll listen to this tonight. It's available on Amazon HD, but only cd quality. Also, its not listed in the DR database.
No, very fortunate in that area. Those type of SPLs are what I have been used to and encountered most of my life. Even as a young child the pounding on a live piano in the adjacent room greeted me every morning.
60-65dB(C) would be normal for me, but on most days I listen at 65-70dB(C) for a small part of the time. I chose the higher of the two in the poll.
I listen more quietly than I thought, somewhere between 60 to 70dB, peaking at about 75, occasionally 80-ish dB. I imagined it was about 10dB higher than that. But then my wife affectionately calls me bat-eared. Maybe she has a point but I don't see myself as different from fellow audiophiles I know. This leads me to believe system improvements for me might be more pleasing if I head in the 'low-noise' direction. But perhaps that's true of everyone?
You have to specify which weighting you are using to make this poll meaningful. You will get very different readings otherwise.
Do you recall what weighting you used to measure this? I listen at similar levels A weighted, though sometimes go even a bit higher to really rock out.
I feel like the ranges in your poll are too narrow I find my listening is in the 55-75 db range judging by the dbPro meter on my phone.
Who the #$@! pulls out a dB meter during home listening?!! I have no idea exactly how loud I listen, other than "not very" up to maybe "loud enoigh".
I used a smartphone app, so the likelihood is that it's A-weighted given it would be used for general environmental purposes (workplace, general home, etc). But the app doesn't explicitly say what it uses, but has reference to environmental levels for comparison.
80 dB is where the "body" of my music lives most of the time. When the peaks are around 85-88, that's when the music really gets going. When I switch my Radioshack SPL meter to "A" mode, the body is more like 72-75, which is perfectly healthy listening volume for hours on end. My system has tons of bass which skews the numbers when the "C" weighting is used.
~80dB C-weighted, continuous. Peaks no higher than 85dB. But only because I'm in an apartment. Gotta say, continuous ~88dB with peaks well above 90 is where the fun really is but that ain't happening for me any time soon.
