What is the sound level of Your Listening Room?


I am curious about what the sound level is at your listening position with your system turned off. I have checked mine and during the day it is about 43 dB and at 1:00 a.m. it can be as low as 28. I can improve the daytime level to 35 dB by turning off the refrigerators and air conditioner. What have you done to improve the sound level of your room?

I am considering adding a listening room to the back of my garage (wife is on board because she needs more storage space) and if you have made improvements that have reduced your ambient noise, please share them.
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...high '20s' to mid '30's, but in town.  Traffic dies off at night.  Next to rails, so occasional 'loudnesses' beyond control....
...sounds of Industry, all that....*s*

No 'real close' neighbors, so dB is what I'd care to do.

Source: 'Live' calibrated into R/T eq display...

Space itself is....'tolerable'.....most 'noise floor' is just the sound of 'things'....Multiple 'puters, light racket....
MC, re 6/10 2:40pm......

Lets' see....sensorydep, exposure to musics in an padded cell, the only main furnishings is a highly exotic collection of 'devices' designed to make one 'hallucinate' the recorded record of an 'event'.....?

...explains a lot. ;)

Happy Stunday, J
WOW these rooms sound so cool but to you have system good enough for them?
WOW these rooms sound so cool but to you have system good enough for them?





With a relatatively isolated room under 35 Db you begin...

Money dont buy HiFi.... a working brain and acoustic laws and basic scientific facts can do....

It is easy to verify, listening very costly "unnatural sound" of many so called costly system....Compared to my 500 bucks one.... For sure they are better, but not as much as they think, this is why i am glad to own mine and dont want them at the price they paid...

The only criterium to judge a hi-fi system is the final ratio S.Q/ price....Not the price....And this S.Q. is based on acoustic concept: timbre, imaging, soundstage, source width ratio/ listener envelopment...

If not, it will be easy to boast about the price and not very useful to most....

I prefer to sell creativity at peanuts cost.... But many dont believe in simple acoustic experiments , they believe in price paid...


Then ANY "relatively good system" at a lower price than imagined is good enough.....Modulo electrical,mechanical and acoustic control....

I measured 27dBa at 6:30 this morning in my listening room.  The birds chirping outside would make it bounce to 29.  I was standing about 4 feet away and when my stomach gurgled it jumped to 31.  It doesn’t take much to get over 30.  When listening to music it is around 81-86.