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27 minutes ago, Bcdesign said:

 

 

If you haven't seen "Sound of Metal", it's a great movie about a musician coming to terms with hearing loss.

 

Don't mean to get all serious on y'all...


“It’s all gone Pete Tong” 

Similar vein but dance music 😉

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When young I lived in apartments, I remember my first system, no sub, put terminator on and about 5 mins later all residents outside my door, I realised then it was not ideal.

 

Moved to house later, but got married, they are worse than whiny neighbours....lol....you have to get a bigger place and have your own space, unless they enjoy what you do I guess.

 

Lets just say, life is full of things you cannot do :)

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29 minutes ago, Bcdesign said:

 

True, every now and then its great to turn it up.

 

Just remember guys, prolonged exposure past 85db (I think) damages hearing.

Don't want those systems to go to waste later on 🥲

 

Probably did enough damage early on attending concerts without protection so gotta be mindful now.

 

If you haven't seen "Sound of Metal", it's a great movie about a musician coming to terms with hearing loss.

 

Don't mean to get all serious on y'all...

Hearing damage depends on both level and exposure time, but @Bcdesign is correct - from here https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_cause_hearing_loss.html:

  • 80-85dB - damage possible after 2hrs 
  • 95dB - damage possible after 50 minutes
  • 100dB - damage possible after 15 minutes
  • 105-110dB -  damage possible in less than 5 minutes

I'm way more conscious of looking after my ears now than I was 30 years ago.

  • I love the stereo loud, but I keep the loud sessions short - and accept the possibility of hearing damage.
  • I take hearing protection to concerts now - the Etymotic earplugs have a reasonably flat frequency response so it sounds fine
  • I use the same Etymotic earplugs for band practise/mowing the lawn and ear muffs for the power saw/jack hammer etc etc

If I'm going to damage my hearing further, it will be via loud music, not industrial noise!

 

I'm gobsmacked when I see people mowing their lawn/whipper snippering/chain sawing without hearing protection - all of that is in the hearing damage range...

...and they're usually wearing thongs for foot wear...

 

Mike

 

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Posted
25 minutes ago, greggyp said:

Moved to house later, but got married, they are worse than whiny neighbours

LoL - my wife has never complained when I crank the stereo as she's mostly in the room when I'm cranking it...

My issue is she has less consideration for the neighbours than I do, and tends to crank it at inappropriate hours and gets very p!ssed at me when I intervene :(

 

Mike 

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Do what I do, play a mixture of music to suit all the neighbours requests.😎🎶

 

I actually had my neighbor from 3 doors up come over to see me last week with a Glass of wine in her hand and said she could always here my music and loved my choice of music played, since now both house's next to me have been pulled down, she advises she hears the music clearly and better than before, and wanted to see my system.😅

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30 minutes ago, Bass13 said:

Do what I do, play a mixture of music to suit all the neighbours requests.😎🎶

 

I actually had my neighbor from 3 doors up come over to see me last week with a Glass of wine in her hand and said she could always here my music and loved my choice of music played, since now both house's next to me have been pulled down, she advises she hears the music clearly and better than before, and wanted to see my system.😅

Sounds like code to me, glass of wine in hand wanting to see your "equipment " !! 🤔

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I have asked my immediate neighbours if they can hear my music if I play it loud at times. One of them said she can sometimes hear it when she is outside, but also that she likes some of the Irish music that I often play. I don't crank up the volume excessively loud though, and I live in a solid brick house which helps to dampen sound transmission somewhat.

 

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I play “Guess the song game” with my neighbors.  
 

Not all of them join in, however one mentioned that her dad said this is a good place to buy as there is music in the neighborhood. 
 

So far, I feel like I’ve added value. 
 

To anyone else that does not appreciate it, they have no taste in music and need to loosen up a bit. 

Posted
19 hours ago, PauliD said:

My normal level is about 80dB to going by a free iPhone app, but just like having a fast car or motorcycle it’s fun to stretch it legs every now and then ;)

I have paid good money for my gear and only turning it up a only 10% (seriously) on the dial makes me wonder what it all can really do. 

Uhhh, both yes and no.

 

The hifi has 800 watts/channel and the car cruises at over 250 Kph so really stretching legs is highly likely to have serious repercussions.

 

Fortunately I've had complaints neither from the neighbours nor the police.:angel:

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Posted
8 hours ago, evil c said:

Sounds like code to me, glass of wine in hand wanting to see your "equipment " !! 🤔

Clive you are onto something here Mate , She might be more interested in BASS13's equipment than music itself....

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1 hour ago, GregWormald said:

Uhhh, both yes and no.

 

The hifi has 800 watts/channel and the car cruises at over 250 Kph so really stretching legs is highly likely to have serious repercussions.

 

Fortunately I've had complaints neither from the neighbours nor the police.:angel:

 

Back in my younger years, I lived in a block of units in Collaroy.  Across the road from the police station.  In the 12 months I lived there,  the police came around 13 times. 

  At the end I used to open all the windows,  just to piss the rest of the building and next door off.

 

  Probably not quite the behaviour I would teach my kids now.

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We had a spirited (wine fuelled) lounge room dancing session with family until about 3am last night, the volume pegging it for quite a lot of the time. 

 

my nearest neighbouring house is 800m as the crow flies, the next it’s over a kilometre away. I have seriously considered a nexo PA for outdoor listening duties in summer. That might finally get someone’s attention.

 

I don’t know how you live in the city and have those listening limitations.

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Once I played Direct to Disc James Newton Howard and Friends LP, my next door neighbour saw me a day after, asking if someone plays drums as he said, he used to play drums. That was one of best compliment I had! :classic_biggrin:

When it comes to loudness level, I would play at 9 o'clock position with the volume at most of time and sometimes may pushes to 10 depending on the music in old metric terms.

 

A good friend of mine who moved up to Dorrigo (a beautiful place really with clean crisp airs) from Sydney, with no neighbours can be seen for ~1km with just views of the hills, and we would set the volume at 10 for couple of hours  playing 60s and 70 rock continuously. Most importantly, his wife also enjoys the music which is a bonus.

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On 13/11/2021 at 6:35 PM, JMM said:

Apartment living, I get complains over 65db (with bass) sometimes.  Oh how I wish I didn't otherwise love the city lifestyle. 


just boarded the same boat myself. At least body corporate put up a sign to people complaining about noise that people do make noise. Fact of life. 

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Not quite stereo related but:

My next door neighbour built a skateboard ramp about a year ago. Has used it maybe 10 times and even then I can hardly hear them riding it. Our common backdoor neighbour walked around the block, knocked on their door and complained about the noise!

 

Now, my son plays in a couple of bands and they jam in my garage, which is at the back on my block and made from Colorbond with no insulation - and they play pretty loud!

The same back door neighbour walked around the block and came to my place and we enjoyed a beer on my deck listening to the music!! Go figure!

 

EditL I forgot to add our back door neighbour would be in his late 70's and obviously still loves his music. While sucking on his beer, he said, this is great the closer you get the better it is. Haha

 

Cheers,

 

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25 minutes ago, Rustee said:

Not quite stereo related but:

My next door neighbour built a skateboard ramp about a year ago. Has used it maybe 10 times and even then I can hardly hear them riding it. Our common backdoor neighbour walked around the block, knocked on their door and complained about the noise!

 

Now, my son plays in a couple of bands and they jam in my garage, which is at the back on my block and made from Colorbond with no insulation - and they play pretty loud!

The same back door neighbour walked around the block and came to my place and we enjoyed a beer on my deck listening to the music!! Go figure!

 

Cheers,

 

A beer will do that  - no problem here

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We have unusually good walls in these units, can't hear neighbours TV's or stereos and they can only hear mine when I have the balcony sliding doors open if they have theirs open also, and that's only the unit immediately above ours.

 

But I still air on the side of being respectful and limit levels.

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1 hour ago, April Snow said:

I think my neighbours wish I would go on holiday....................

 

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Is that you punching the wall to annoy them ;)

 

Sound travelled much more *clearly* over distance when I was in the country, but any actual volume was reduced by distance.

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On 13/11/2021 at 11:11 PM, almikel said:

Hearing damage depends on both level and exposure time, but @Bcdesign is correct - from here https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/what_noises_cause_hearing_loss.html:

  • 80-85dB - damage possible after 2hrs 
  • 95dB - damage possible after 50 minutes
  • 100dB - damage possible after 15 minutes
  • 105-110dB -  damage possible in less than 5 minutes

I'm way more conscious of looking after my ears now than I was 30 years ago.

  • I love the stereo loud, but I keep the loud sessions short - and accept the possibility of hearing damage.
  • I take hearing protection to concerts now - the Etymotic earplugs have a reasonably flat frequency response so it sounds fine
  • I use the same Etymotic earplugs for band practise/mowing the lawn and ear muffs for the power saw/jack hammer etc etc

If I'm going to damage my hearing further, it will be via loud music, not industrial noise!

 

I'm gobsmacked when I see people mowing their lawn/whipper snippering/chain sawing without hearing protection - all of that is in the hearing damage range...

...and they're usually wearing thongs for foot wear...

 

Mike

 

 

Hey Mike, 

 

I am like you, I wear hearing protection, gloves, long pants and shirts even in the heat of summer, glasses.....all considered poofy things to do when I grew up, we chased walls, cut fibro sheets, worked in the sun for 8hrs or  more, no gloves etc, but loud mowers etc are no joy to listen too, getting skin cancers cut out is no fun, nor is ripping chunks of skin from your hands etc any fun as you age etc etc

 

I do like to turn stereo up, and good amp etc means it does not hurt the ears.

 

I guess that is why I buy 100 to 200w/ch amps now, so my noise cancelling head muffs have to work to earn their keep.....lol.....  they ain't cans I am walking round the house with !

 

I am joking, although, I also always said losing my hearing would be the one thing I could do without, as I do not have to listen to all the things I do wrong every 5 minutes of each day, I have decided I do not want to lose that either, so there is a trade off between liking loud music and hearing.

 

I have a db meter somewhere, I will now try and remember to measure the volumes I like so I can be better educated about the risk.

 

Someone should make a sticky if those numbers and times are accurate.

Posted
7 hours ago, Rustee said:

My next door neighbour built a skateboard ramp about a year ago. Has used it maybe 10 times and even then I can hardly hear them riding it. Our common backdoor neighbour walked around the block, knocked on their door and complained about the noise!

I used to live in New Farm (Brisbane) - down the road there was a carpark with a classic bank to skate - a big front side carve and drop back to the flat as it got steeper.

We used to skate it for hours - no complaints.

I skated it again a few years ago and got complaints within 5 minutes :(

 

Mike

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