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[John F]

I think my early days must have taken a toll on my hearing.

I listened to a Bose wave a few weeks ago and it sounded good to me. The outdoor speakers I liked were also Bose.

I have Starbucks ears...so shameful. 

[BoldJava]

I think my early days must have taken a toll on my hearing.

I listened to a Bose wave a few weeks ago and it sounded good to me. The outdoor speakers I liked were also Bose.

I have Starbucks ears...so shameful. 

+1.  I know I have hearing issues -- close to too many F-4s and -105s.  However, look at it this way John.  It is a rabbit hole that isn't even tempting for us.

[Ascholten]

That's why we need stronger amps, to get past the hearing 'issues' we have.
30 years around screaming turbines, (and occasional screaming division officers) took it's toll on my hearing.

Then again I was the retard who had 1600 watts in his 83 Plymouth turismo back in the late 80's, before it really became popular to be audibly obnoxious on the road.

Aaron

[Tex]

I think my early days must have taken a toll on my hearing.

I listened to a Bose wave a few weeks ago and it sounded good to me. The outdoor speakers I liked were also Bose.

I have Starbucks ears...so shameful. 

Try shooting competitively with a Colt 45 ACP. My hearing in both the high and low ranges is such that even AM radio sounds good.

[Ascholten]

Tex, I have a ruger blackhawk chambered in .30 cal carbine.  You want to talk about a loud ass gun... man that thing can make your ears ring.

Aaron

[peter]

I think my early days must have taken a toll on my hearing.

I listened to a Bose wave a few weeks ago and it sounded good to me. The outdoor speakers I liked were also Bose.

I have Starbucks ears...so shameful. 

Try shooting competitively with a Colt 45 ACP. My hearing in both the high and low ranges is such that even AM radio sounds good.

Which is why a pair of these go with me to the range every time.

Of course, way back in the 50's when you were shooting competitively, nobody thought about hearing protection.

[grinderz]

I'm religious about hearing protection. When I worked construction, I always had a pair of muffs on or just clamped on the top of my head if there was nothing loud going on. I still wear them when running any kind of power equipment, even just mowing the lawn. If I'm shooting, I double up with foam ear plugs AND muffs.

[Ascholten]

grinderz I always wore my hearing protection in the engine room, the boiler room etc as well but I still took a hit on my hearing.  I wonder if sometimes a noise is just so loud it just goes right through you and does it's damage.

Here's something to consider,  driving with your car window open, the wind blowing across your ears,  it's low freq but how loud is that really?  I mean, all sound is is pressure waves or air movement right?   I wonder what kind of damage the wind blowing across your ears does.

Aaron

[grinderz]

I'm sure that open windows in cars can be a problem and even minor damage is cumulative over time. About your hearing loss, I suspect you are right. Hearing protection is very helpful, but damage can still occur in spite of it. Sound is actually transmitted through the bones in our heads, not just through direct impingement on the ear drum, and muffs don't protect against that if the noise is loud enough.

[Tex]

I think my early days must have taken a toll on my hearing.

I listened to a Bose wave a few weeks ago and it sounded good to me. The outdoor speakers I liked were also Bose.

I have Starbucks ears...so shameful. 

Try shooting competitively with a Colt 45 ACP. My hearing in both the high and low ranges is such that even AM radio sounds good.

Which is why a pair of these go with me to the range every time.

Of course, way back in the 50's when you were shooting competitively, nobody thought about hearing protection.

Actually, it was the early 60's; but you're right - at the company level no one was told to use ear protection when qualifying. After I made the pistol team and began a 20+ year career of shooting competitively, I did wear both plugs & ear muffs; but the damage was already done. I did get a 20% military disability for my hearing loss, but I'd happily give all the money back to not have the constant LOUD ringing in my ears!

[Ascholten]

sometimes I have ringing but most of the times it's more of a buzz.  Add that to the migraines and yeppers, my life is fun fun fun!!

Aaron

[Tex]

sometimes I have ringing but most of the times it's more of a buzz.  Add that to the migraines and yeppers, my life is fun fun fun!!

Aaron

Can you imagine what the hearing is like for the swabbies in the turrets of an Iowa-class battleship when those 16" guns were salvoed?

[Ascholten]

actually Tex it was more of a pressure wave that was set off, no super loud bang, just a literal sucking as the oxygen got burned.
I was on a battle ship for a short time during my electrician days and whenever we fired the guns, we would have to light off a few extra boilers because if the BT on watch was not careful, it would suck the fires out of the boiler when the gun went off.  Having extras online helped prevent the big problem of no boilers which would then equal in about 30 seconds, no electricity.

Aaron

[grinderz]

UPDATE!! I figured out what the problem with our old Pioneer tuner was. The problem was that I'm a audio-ignoramus. I had the line from the entertainment PC going into the phono input on the tuner. Everyone over 45 is probably thinking "what a dummy," but I didn't realize that the phonograph line has an extra amplifier section so I was getting clipping due to the input signal being too high. We're rocking out to Roy Rogers (the Cajun blues slide guitar player - not the cowboy) as I type this.

[pgde]

Any update on release date?