What's your normal listening distance and db level at that distance at home?

[Rhamnetin]

7', usually 68-76 dB depending on what I'm listening to according to REW + UMIK-1. It seems I generally prefer having the loudest parts of a song hit 75-77 dB. Beyond this causes fatigue. LZPeak was 88 or 89 dB.

 

[Dimifoot]

2.75m
Reference level.

 

[dlaloum]

2.3m 72db A Weighted at MLP using vintage Radio Shack SPL meter...

 

[Somafunk]

Approx 2m from monitors that are 2m apart and usually 75db to 85db, but occasionally louder, especially when playing Mogwai

 

[Tom Schneider]

I'm 8.5ft with a very open room and typically stick to 70-85db. There are nights with friends where we push 95db but that is rare. I tend to listen early in the morning on weekends when my wife is still asleep downstairs so stay around 70db. The good thing is my OB speakers sound good at lower levels.

 

[Platypus20]

8-10 ft at 65-75 dB

 

[LeoB]

2.50m at 60dB

 

[CapMan]

2.8m 70dB

 

[Count Arthur]

According to what surely must be the most accurate measuring device in the known universe:

About 75dB at 1 to 1.5m.

 

[fredoamigo]

2 m 60 (8’6) to 85 db average but sometimes much more depending on the time of day, fatigue and style of music or if I want to listen to live music at realistic volume.
The problem with some loudspeakers is that you never get the impression that they're playing very loudly ... even though the "acceptable" threshold was exceeded a long time ago ... this rarely happens with small loudspeakers.

 

[poopy]

That's low level listening. Is that mainly classical?

Low level listening at 70dB at 6 feet? Looks like you start going deaf....

 

[izeek]

13x16 room. ~7ft from lp. 7-2ish btw. ~
35in from frt wall to frt baffles. ~34in from side wall. subs outboard and baffle-aligned with the mains.
50-60db mostly.

 

[izeek]

@fredamigo-

The problem with some loudspeakers is that you never get the impression that they're playing very loudly ... even though the "acceptable" threshold was exceeded a long time ago ..

this definitely describes my jbls.
i walk to another room and go, damn thats loud.
my wife has no threshold here. occasionally, i walk into the house and the wife will have it up to the 80s.
helloooo, can you hear me? what?.

 

[BobbyTimmons]

From these answers so far it seems like most of us are listening at moderate to low levels and don't use more than 1 or 2 watts per channel except during peaks?

 

[boxerfan88]

2.5m ~75-80dBA average

 

[Palmspar]

Music -26 volume scale on receiver no dyn volume
Movies also -26 dyn volume on, , it sounds like -20 or so but without the peaks.
Denon x3400 receiver

 

[BobbyTimmons]

Low level listening at 70dB at 6 feet? Looks like you start going deaf....

Listening from 6 feet at 70db seems like low level listening to me. You couldn't get any acoustic instruments to play that quiet. With a 1 watt per channel amplifier you would still have 10db headroom with typical bookshelves. A 4 watt per channel tube amp would give you ample headroom. Not saying there's anything wrong with that listening level.

 

[Sgt. Ear Ache]

I sit roughly 7 feet from the speakers and listen generally at 70-75dbs. That volume is loud enough that I start to worry about bothering the neighbors in my apartment. Certainly louder than the amount of volume I get from my acoustic guitar...

 

[DanielT]

At 2 meters. 6.5 ft distance, 67 dB, peak 84 dB:


Same song, I didn't change the volume on the DAC/Amp, 3.5 meters, 11.5 ft, 69 dB , peak 87 dB:


It's a little, but not much, louder than my normal listening volume. I just wanted to test at different distances. It's the same dB then. The small differences can
probably can be attributed to that app accuracy, plus if I affected the microphone (that regarding top , the peak value). I can do a lot more measurements and draw an average value, but I think this shows that distance in a normal listening room (if my room is), you don't need to increase the volume to experience the same loudness at a longer distance.

 

[Kevin1956]

12ft. 60-70db.