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Title: How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 02, 2004, 05:14:00 PM

So how loud does it get at your listening position?

I've taken to really letting my system rip during the day, I'd really like to get a meter and test how loud it gets.

I'd imagine with some of the systems I see on here you guys are really pushing some heavy db's.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 02, 2004, 05:24:51 PM

how sensitive Mike?

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 02, 2004, 05:31:17 PM

I think mine are 88db efficient but I was never entirely clear on how to interpret that.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 02, 2004, 05:46:33 PM

yes that's right... I vaguely remember that from the Yamaha sound reinforcement handbook.

gotcha...

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 02, 2004, 06:01:00 PM

Todd and I talked about the "uncomfortably loud" thing a few times.

Basically I don't even realize how loud they are sometimes. The speakers still sound clean and smooth, even when cranked and don't fatigue or cause strain. Really, until someone else comes over I sometimes forget how loud the stereo is.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: utahtaper on March 02, 2004, 08:43:16 PM

Quote from: Moke on March 02, 2004, 05:56:43 PM

bottomline in all that is they sound really nice without being uncomfortably loud. (and Baroque :happylove: doesnt sound right all cranked up)

What speakers are you running to get those results?

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 03, 2004, 03:02:56 AM

Quote from: Moke on March 02, 2004, 09:24:20 PM

Rumored to be very tube friendly. They love my 175 watts of solid state!

 :lol:

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: scervin on March 03, 2004, 07:22:45 AM

At my listening position I'm at 85-90 dB most of the time.  

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Nick's Picks on March 03, 2004, 07:27:45 AM

I tend to stay in that 80-95db range most of the time for my personal listening...but with a toddler in the house, it often stays lower than that, like 65-75db range

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 03, 2004, 11:44:23 AM

thanks guys, that's interesting,

I think a friend has a db meter, I may bring it over for a few days and measure my listening position.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: JeffK on March 03, 2004, 12:33:07 PM

Hrm... I should get a meter.  I generally listen at levels where I can still comfortably talk to the person next to me.  It 'can' play fairly loud though :)

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Lee on March 03, 2004, 01:30:59 PM

when I had the maggies, I stayed somewhere between 90-95 most of the time (just 'cause I was in a dorm and that's what it took to kill the ambient noise)

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 03, 2004, 01:33:30 PM

Lee - did you have a meter?

They have cheap ones at rat shack that would work fine but I don't need to own one, I just want to take a few readings out of curiosity.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Lee on March 03, 2004, 01:41:20 PM

it was one of the cheap rat shack meters that probably hasn't been calibrated in a decade.  That number's probably not accurate at all.  Measured ambient noise was 38dB, and I know without a doubt it's louder than that.

Title: Re:How loud?
Post by: Tim on March 03, 2004, 05:08:53 PM

thanks Lee!