[BC] Re: Could our concept of audio be all wrong?

[Glen Kippel]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Chuck Lakaytis <chuck at akpb.org> wrote:

>
> I think the musicians want it loud because they are essentially deaf for
> mid and high frequencies by their early twenties.  I spoke with an
> audiologist friend about this.  He said that rock and country musicians and
> their audiences listen to audio levels that would bring a hefty OSHA fine if
> the same levels were produced in a workplace such as a factory!
>
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Teah.  Ages ago I took the kids to a Rez Band concert.  The sound was so
loud (and we were way in the back) that it was above the threshhold of pain,
and the kids begged me to leave.  So we did.