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lucky chucky wrote:
Hey, I experienced something really unusual the other evening and was wondering what you pro guys thought about it. I went to the opening of a new club in Toronto, and spent about 5 hours there. The music was pumping really loud, about average for a club I'd say. When I got home that night, my ears were not ringing whatsoever. Usually after a loud night at a club, as soon as I lay down in bed I can hear the ringing from the loud music. I noticed that they had an unusual sound-system, for a club. All of the speakers were from Bang & Olufsen, mounted all the way around the room on the walls. And a nice B&O sub in the corner on the floor. Is there something special about their speakers that makes them easier on the ears? Linearity in frequency and time domains. Just curious and was wondering what others thought on this topic. Chucky -- ******************************************* * My site is at: http://www.muyiovatki.dk * ******************************************* |
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My ears were not ringing after a loud night in a club... Does B&O have a magic speaker?
Hey,
I experienced something really unusual the other evening and was wondering what you pro guys thought about it. I went to the opening of a new club in Toronto, and spent about 5 hours there. The music was pumping really loud, about average for a club I'd say. When I got home that night, my ears were not ringing whatsoever. Usually after a loud night at a club, as soon as I lay down in bed I can hear the ringing from the loud music. I noticed that they had an unusual sound-system, for a club. All of the speakers were from Bang & Olufsen, mounted all the way around the room on the walls. And a nice B&O sub in the corner on the floor. Is there something special about their speakers that makes them easier on the ears? Just curious and was wondering what others thought on this topic. Chucky |
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Peter Larsen wrote: lucky chucky wrote: Hey, I experienced something really unusual the other evening and was wondering what you pro guys thought about it. I went to the opening of a new club in Toronto, and spent about 5 hours there. The music was pumping really loud, about average for a club I'd say. When I got home that night, my ears were not ringing whatsoever. Usually after a loud night at a club, as soon as I lay down in bed I can hear the ringing from the loud music. I noticed that they had an unusual sound-system, for a club. All of the speakers were from Bang & Olufsen, mounted all the way around the room on the walls. And a nice B&O sub in the corner on the floor. Is there something special about their speakers that makes them easier on the ears? Linearity in frequency and time domains. Just curious and was wondering what others thought on this topic. Chucky Cumulative hearing damage. --Dale |
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It's because you are now deaf. Read my lips - YOU ARE NOW DEAF!
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i have to agree - you should be VERY concerned about the fact that you don't
have ringing now. It means that that part of your hearing is now gone. Go get a hearing test and see what kind of damage you've done. "will" wrote in message oups.com... It's because you are now deaf. Read my lips - YOU ARE NOW DEAF! |
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"lucky chucky" wrote in message oups.com... I noticed that they had an unusual sound-system, for a club. All of the speakers were from Bang & Olufsen, mounted all the way around the room on the walls. And a nice B&O sub in the corner on the floor. Is there something special about their speakers that makes them easier on the ears? Perhaps we were dealing with the simplicity of merely moving more air and using a great deal less actual power and volume. (?) If there were a really large number of speakers properly aligned (as Peter mentioned) the system may have actually been idling at a much lower power level. By the same token, we'll assume that there was also some serious treatment applied to the room... yes? -- David Morgan (MAMS) http://www.m-a-m-s.com Morgan Audio Media Service Dallas, Texas (214) 662-9901 _______________________________________ http://www.artisan-recordingstudio.com |
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"David Morgan (MAMS)" wrote:
"lucky chucky" wrote in message oups.com... I noticed that they had an unusual sound-system, for a club. All of the speakers were from Bang & Olufsen, mounted all the way around the room on the walls. And a nice B&O sub in the corner on the floor. Is there something special about their speakers that makes them easier on the ears? Perhaps we were dealing with the simplicity of merely moving more air and using a great deal less actual power and volume. (?) If there were a really large number of speakers properly aligned (as Peter mentioned) the system may have actually been idling at a much lower power level. By the same token, we'll assume that there was also some serious treatment applied to the room... yes? With a multi-speaker setup maybe the sound is simply better distributed so avoiding the 'hot spots' that'll end up causing the ringing ? Graham |
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"Iain Fraser" wrote in message
... i have to agree - you should be VERY concerned about the fact that you don't have ringing now. It means that that part of your hearing is now gone. Go get a hearing test and see what kind of damage you've done. I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. Sean |
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Sean Conolly wrote: I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. *That* I didn't know. Yikes! Are these young gangsters with the woofers that shake an apartement building from a block away killing all of their hair cells or is the damaged region frequency dependant? How rapidly can they be expected to lose whatever they're going to lose with a couple of hours a day spent that way? Bob -- "Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler." A. Einstein |
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early-onset hearing loss is on the rise. yes they are damaging their
ears. incredibly stupid in my view. |
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Sean Conolly wrote: "Iain Fraser" wrote in message ... i have to agree - you should be VERY concerned about the fact that you don't have ringing now. It means that that part of your hearing is now gone. Go get a hearing test and see what kind of damage you've done. I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. Sean Tinitis is only one symptom of hearing damage. Temporary after a loud noise exposure is normal, and a sign that your nerves have been damaged. They may heal up, if you leave them quiet for a while to rest. But if you go back to the club the next night, and the next, and the next, they will eventually die. A good analogy is a patch of grass. Walking on it leaves a set of foot prints that spring back after a little while. Walking on the same path in the grass every day several times a day will eventually leave a path in the grass where it has been beaten down and will take extensive treatment before it grows back. Running over it with one of those giant mudder pickup trucks at high speed just rips the grass up leaving nothing but a muddy rut. --Dale |
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"Bob Cain" wrote...
Sean Conolly wrote: I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. *That* I didn't know. Yikes! Are these young gangsters with the woofers that shake an apartement building from a block away killing all of their hair cells or is the damaged region frequency dependant? How rapidly can they be expected to lose whatever they're going to lose with a couple of hours a day spent that way? Poetic justice? Do you think we'll start hearing rap songs about losing their hearing? Is that what happened to Ludwig v Bethoven? |
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Bob Cain wrote:
I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. Just developed it myself, this past year. At a low level, luckily, so I can live with it, but... Grump! |
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"Joe Kesselman" wrote in message
... Bob Cain wrote: I take it you don't have tinitus? I can assure you that the ringing never stops, and never will even if I go stone cold deaf. Just developed it myself, this past year. At a low level, luckily, so I can live with it, but... Grump! Mine was a shooting accident about 17 years ago. At first all I heard from one ear was robot voices, but eventually it recovered to just a steady moderately loud ringing, and thus it has been ever since. It's actually surprising how well I can hear despite the damage, as long as I can focus both ears on the job. Sean |
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"lucky chucky" wrote in message oups.com... Hey, I experienced something really unusual the other evening and was wondering what you pro guys thought about it. I went to the opening of a new club in Toronto, and spent about 5 hours there. The music was pumping really loud, about average for a club I'd say. When I got home that night, my ears were not ringing whatsoever. Usually after a loud night at a club, as soon as I lay down in bed I can hear the ringing from the loud music. You are finally totally deaf at those frequencies. geoff |
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early-onset hearing loss is on the rise. yes they are damaging their ears. incredibly stupid in my view. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Maybe the low end was pumped up but the mids and the highs were tolerable. Some of the stuff nowadays (like rap) can be very loud but you can actually have a conversation over it because the mids and highs are mixed so low...maybe that's part of the appeal to this crap. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Speaking as someone who started listening to very loud music at the age of 11 (my brother was in a band before me), I still get ringing after loud music. Too young and dumb to know better back then. There is the tendency to mix too loud after some hearing loss, and headphones are like a buffet to a fat man. I have had tinnitus as long as I can remember. I don't need a hearing aid yet (well maybe I do...huh????), but in a noisy crowd I become the village idiot..not able to follow a conversation. Ear Plugs, such a great invention!!!! |
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