It's function of my mood, my state and the type of music.My other poll question about Tinnitus and the surprising discovery that 80% of us seem to have it, got me wondering ...
How loud do you play your music?
A French survey has shown 75 % DJ aged of 26 years max have tinnitus.My other poll question about Tinnitus and the surprising discovery that 80% of us seem to have it, got me wondering ...
How loud do you play your music?
I play mine at 100% of the PC's volume control except for movies where I turn it down to about 1/2 the way to full. I can hear my headphones across the room clear as can be except the bass is non-existent. Maybe I need a more powerful amp.
I find some audio tracks have reduced volume levels and need more power for those. I wish they could standardize the recording levels so this does not occur.LOL ... maybe you need to change your vote to the "ear bleed" category .....
You can!I find some audio tracks have reduced volume levels and need more power for those. I wish they could standardize the recording levels so this does not occur.
I stopped storing locally years ago after a catastrophe where I lost my music collection of ~34,000 music files, a bunch of movies and assorted video files. I just use YouTube now. YouTube audio levels are all over the place.You can!
There are a few ways to do it ...
I believe the FooBar player supports replay gain, which writes a tag into your music file telling the player how to adjust the volume to keep playback at an even loudness.
You can also use MP3Gain and AACGain to perminently "re-volume" the files themselves.
My music collection (6300 files) is almost entirely in MP3/320 and it's been normalized at -16dbfs by MP3Gain, just like the streaming services. My movies (930 files) are all normalized at "max no clipping" levels by AACGain (much to my neighbour's chagrin)
I believe, but have not investigated, that similar softwares exist for AC3 and Flac files as well.
I find some audio tracks have reduced volume levels and need more power for those. I wish they could standardize the recording levels so this does not occur.
I run my headphone volume for music listening at max 100% of the time. It's loud and can be heard across the room as if a transistor radio is playing. But for those tracks where the output is reduced I run out of headroom on the volume control.well sure, but presumably when you come across those tracks you turn the volume up a bit to what would basically be your "normal" listening level. You aren't turning those tracks up to a volume that's louder than what you normally listen at right? The question isn't asking what amplification level you normally use on your amp...it's asking what spl at the listening point.
I stopped storing locally years ago after a catastrophe where I lost my music collection of ~34,000 music files, a bunch of movies and assorted video files. I just use YouTube now. YouTube audio levels are all over the place.
I run my headphone volume for music listening at max 100% of the time. It's loud and can be heard across the room as if a transistor radio is playing. But for those tracks where the output is reduced I run out of headroom on the volume control.
OK, I get that...so then in order to answer the OP's query you could perhaps find a track that you would consider to be your normal listening volume and find some way to measure the spl from the headphone to get a DB reading.
I don't think we need to get all technical ... just a "best estimate" should be fine.
As it turns out I do have an SPL meter ... but I wouldn't call that a necessity in answering the poll.
Surely the options here are not exclusive, i think i could tick every option except the last depending on mood, who else is in the room, day of week, neighbors, cats, etc etc....
I had a theft situation and lost all my pooder gear. Even the backup drive was taken. That's when I went online and subscribed to a online backup solution for some years. Now I just backup to a hardware encrypted thumb drive that I keep hidden and don't store music files.Ummmm .... ever heard of Backups?