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My ears start hurting at 82. How!?
92dB RMS for two years‽‽ I hope that was all bass.
I’ve only seen root mean square for wattage.
It doesn’t matter if it’s all bass, since bass can travel through the cochlea as well, any frequency above say 250Hz can damage the hair cells and even with earplugs with 25dBNR many frequencies above 250Hz can travel through the plug and straight into the hearing organs, so something like 300Hz can travel through and still cause damage. Generally frequencies below 200Hz are of lesser consequence but you need to be careful since vibrations can also damage the microvascular and tubular structures within the cochlea. How do I know this? From years of study.
Wait, there’s an app that lets you monitor headphone loudness?
Well. On the plus side - you don’t need to worry about noisy neighbors 🤷♂️
I recommend noise cancellation! it will increase the noise floor you can audibly hear thus making your audio clear to you at lower volumes.
92 db is noisy, but there are worse things. The duration of exposure must also be taken into account.
We found that one guy on every train/bus blasting their music so loud everyone else can hear it and identify the song.
Get some ANC headphones or buds
That’s worse than my average for working in a fabrication shop that maxes my Apple Watch out daily (120db) my average for the year is 85db, and I wear custom earplugs
Whats the app that tells you those stats
Does everything sound a little clogged? Do you have trouble telling the difference between consonants? If yes then your fricked.
If no, then consider this a close call and start getting used to lower volume for the sake of your ears!
You’re more than likely have a small amount of hearing damage. Go get it checked out if you literally can’t understand people in conversations!!
Bro 92 db is crazy loud ,you need a ears check ,dont go over 80-85
P.s buy some iems…
Holy, go to the doctor. And then buy some ANC buds or headphones to use on trains
Just buy some good inears… anc isn’t actually that great as it’s producing constant sound
Nothing the doctor can do for you.
Get some hearing protection.
If you are using you headphones in public, then ignore everything but anc. Usually we recomend some fancy audiophile shit, but just ignore that and get anc. It’ll save your ears
Tbh, I think this is highly inaccurate. If you have your phone connected to your car using bluetooth or a dac it also gives you messages about your volume constantly if you have it on 100% and on like 10% on your radio.
You said airpods, It’s possible they’re all gunked up and 92db is way quieter. Likely if they are Non pro. If not, then you’re screwed