The same additional 20 dB of loudness is presented to the individual with impaired hearing and he reports that the new tone is much louder than the original tone and may be approaching a painfully loud level.
I was able to crank it to a deafeningly loud level without any distortion.
The earphones were with Eva, 11, who was listening to the soundtrack of Glee at a loud enough level to produce that particularly annoying mixture of hiss and thud.
Dynamically he maintained an unvarying, medium-loud level that lent an unfortunately mechanized quality to many of his performances.
Results indicated that the presence of any anthropogenic noise air traffic, ground traffic, or voices negatively impacted environmental assessments, and more so at louder levels, while the natural soundscape had little to no effect on assessments.
Next Friday A loud, low-level sequel to the 1995 comedy "Friday" sends Craig (Ice Cube, who wrote and produced this film) from South Los Angeles to the suburbs, where he will presumably get a respite from big-city violence.
The band's performance kept the energy at a loud and boisterous level — I suppose if you can't have the wine and beer with the meal, then that's the next best thing.
TMTFs measured in this way had a low-pass characteristic, with a cut-off frequency (at comfortably loud levels) similar to that for normal-hearing listeners.
People exposed to loud levels of noise through their occupation, whether as a machinist or a musician, should be protective of their hearing to avoid noise-induced hearing loss and other changes in their hearing such as tinnitus or hyperacusis.
In the end, the orchestra agreed to return and finish the performance at the loud levels.
Others said they knew they were being subjected to dangerously loud levels but shrugged off the risk.
