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[Discordian 6,015]

Quality and age of the headphones will affect how loud I put my volume. Sometimes I can have them at max and I still can't hear it very well, other times I only need it at around 55-60% to hear it just fine. There's also a difference between listening at home on my computer and walking around town on my MP3 player where there is massive sounds all around me which I prefer to drown out.

 

As for how much I listen to music....technically every second of my day because there's music in games but if you wanna talk about listening to just music that depends entirely on the day and how much I walk around or get a craving for a song or type of music. It's really hard to judge because of that.

 

I should also note though that I hate having to turn the volume way up with music. There's a point when music starts getting garbled when it's too loud so you stop hearing certain sounds because it's being overshadowed by all the static and garbledygook so I try not to turn it up too loud for the sake of musical integrity if I can help it.

Edited August 4, 2013 by Discordian

[The Pony Alchemist 70]

depends on the song and ear-buds, headphones, or  speakers. Like i'd play "This is War" (30 seconds to Mars) on speakers at 100% but I'd play "Daylight" (Maroon 5) on ear-buds at about 30%.  So again it depends on the song and sound platform.

[Scootadress 361]

My phone volume is like 30? 40 Percent but its not very loud so I put it on louder. (My phone, YouTube, is generally quite) HOWEVER, phone? Loud as fuck. My phone doesn't work well, and when people speak its distorted and very loud...and even at its softest, its bad.

[Scootalove 10,689]

I usually just put the volume on 41-50%, so I can hear everything else around me. But, to me my music isn't really that loud unless I don't have any earbuds on.

[Nobody Special 210]

It depends. When I'm listening to music I use my turtle beaches and my ps3. My Beaches get loud fast and then get rediculusly loud. If I want to play super realistic BF3, I will set it as to where it sounds like I'm on a real battlefield.

[Radiance64 7,053]

Depends on the song's sound quality I guess, lower the quality higher the volume I guess(hey, I like to save memory space k?). Generally I'd say it's around 60-70% though.

[Inactive01 5,299]

The volume rarely gets intense when I listen to classical music. That's why I often set mp iPod to 100% (or near it). As for today's music, I set that to 70% because they can get pretty loud.

[Argos 191]

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[Nobody Special 210]

Lol... the ''real'' battlefield is even more loud. A rifleman can/will experience noise levels up to 160-170 dB (or even higher) during a firefight.

I did a self comparison, firing the saiga 12 guage in real life without protection, and my turtle beaches in BF3 at max volume. I must say that the turtle beaches were extremely close to the real life thing.

[LMW-YBC 102]

I usually have mines set at 61-70% when I'm playing video games. But it really depends on the game; I'll crank it up to full volume if I'm not playing for a long period of time, but if I think I'll be playing for hours then I'll set it to a reasonable volume to avoid ear ache.

[Argos 191]

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Edited March 16, 2014 by Argos

[Broseph Stalin 103]

100% all day every day. 50% when I go to sleep. yes, I listen to music when I go to sleep.

... How can you people listen to your music that quietly? I mean I know the hearing risk and all that, but whats the point of having a good heavy metal song played quiet?

Edited August 4, 2013 by Oireann

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,632]

Wow, this is an incredibly uninteresting question. I'll answer it anyways.

 

Loud enough to block everything else out, take your pick on what level that is. How long do I listen to music? A lot is really all I can say. At least an hour a day, that is basically the bare minimum. Listening to music helps me envision much better thoughts, though those are usually about a better but impossible me.

[Chain Combo 135]

I got super loud headphones 100% volume = death. I'd say it's always between 20-33%, but a lot of people I know put it up to about 50% when they use em so maybe I have sensitive ears.

[GhostPony750 959]

I'm on a quiet place, I put 5% volume, remove the left hearphone from my ear, and listen to my prog rock all day long.

I hate loud noises, and today's music, not my taste.

 

I don't really understand why everyone put their volume to the maximum.

In the end, you don't hear the music really well, it's too loud, and it damages your ears.

[Nobody Special 210]

Please know that hearing damage is cumulative, until we have the technology to effecively regenerate and restore damaged/dead hearing cells you could say that when hearing is lost, it's lost forever. The more you damage your hearing the harder it is for you to hear, things sound softer etc.

 

At a high dB levels you will start having trouble to differentiate sound levels. I never experienced something similar before but there are a lot of people saying that they did not notice a big difference in loudness between a 5.56x45mm and 7.62x51mm (same barrel length, position and location) while the 7.62x51mm measured about 3-5 dB louder (if I'm not mistaken).

 

To make a long story short: at high dB combined with hearing loss you will start having trouble differentiating different dB levels. Not to mention the adrenaline, endorfine and many other factors in your system affecting your hearing experience.

 

Depending on the situation you might as well not hear your first gunshot (without hearing protection) to the fullest, some are so stressed that they do not notice the noise at all (image shooting an angry grizzly bear that is charging you), completely different than sitting on a chair with your heart beating at normal speed. So what makes you think your headphones are capable of produces such a high dB levels?

 

Always remember that even if you don't feel the sounds are too loud, your eardrums still receive the full blow (without you acknowledging it)

Literally I did this once, I don't do it because of such said problems. I wanted to test it and I only tested it once. 90 characters aren't enough.

[Crazydud619dx 30]

I used to have earbuds where I would put my music at max volume (or near max volume if the sounds were unbearable) and listen to some type of music constantly. I remember reading months ago about the problem with listening loud sounds and dB articles. I think around April this year I started lowering my music volume slowly, and now that I have a headset, I leave my audio volume at 55% max. Anything more and it will become too uncomfortable to listen to anything.

 

As for music duration, I tend to listen to music constantly until my headset becomes irritating (which happens maybe every 4-6 hours). 

[Trickiert 150]

When I use my earbuds I generally have my sound around 60% of the full volume cause any louder hurts my ears.

 

With my headphones though I normally have the volume around 80% as it isn't as unpleasant.

 

I have different volumes for listening to music on my PC though due to a different sound setup.

[NopeNopeNope 9]

Depends on audio device , my old headphones at the beginning where somewhere around 75% , at the end when they were really worn out 100% was barely hearable , these i use at the moment 100% is too loud to understand what's the song about , so atm I'm @ about 50% atm , even thou its pretty loud ...

Edited August 6, 2013 by 600360

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

I never have my iPod that loud. I never go more than 25% usually. I only go a little less than half when I absolutely have to to hear the music, which is like never.

 

Kids in my school are a different story. You can hear the preppy girls listening to their Taylor Swift and Screamo music from across the classroom. That can't be good for their ears. 

[NopeNopeNope 9]

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[Zygen 6,066]

I put my volume on like, 25-30% depending on the song and stuff, i value my hearing, especially since I play the trumpet and i'd just like to keep my hearing, so far i think its still pretty well in tact, i haven't noticed any decay in it.

 

But yeah, i don't normally turn it up very high, because I don't wanna hurt my ears. Infact I basically never do. 

[TwilizzleFoShizzle 95]

generally I have my headphones on for most of the time I'm awake during the summer, with my PC volume set to 2 percent and program volumes set around 30 to 50 percent. HOWEVER, it is important to note that I am using 32 ohm impedance headphones with 104db sensitivity, which is a HUGE factor people seem to be overlooking here. the actual volume of the sound in decibels has to do not only with how loud you have your audio devices set but also what types of devices they are and the sensitivity, efficiency and impedance of your headphones. another major factor is the type of audio output device, be it a single speaker, surround speaker, professional studio monitors, circumaural headphones, supraaural headphones, earbuds, or any other types I missed. Lastly you have to take into account any amplification, specifically when dealing with low sensitivity devices.

[A Blithering Div 247]

My mp3 player is safely maxed at some percentage in the nineties. Safely maxed because the volume is -84 to +6 dB (it's at 0, the amplifier's non-overdrived max), the amp isn't all that powerful and its connected to a stereo amp most of the time. On a daily basis, I'd say I listen to music at least 2 hours a day.

[Rory 150]

as loud as i put music im surprised i don't have some form of minor brain damage. i normally just put it as loud as i can if there's anyway to make it louder i do it. 99.9% - 100%