I'm curious. What is your "normal" listening volume?


I suppose this is an open question to any of you fine people, but I'm exclusively analog myself and particularly curious to hear from those of you who listen to records.

What would you say is your normal listening volume? Perhaps measure it and post the db's?

Thanks!

thebrokenrecord

Guys, To simply state a number of decibels is not very informative. It depends upon the distance of your listening position to your speaker, the angle of incidence of your meter, the setting of the meter itself (weighting, etc), how accurately you aim it, if it's at all directional, and whether you use music signal (a mixture of frequencies from bottom to top) or a pure tone (e.g., 1000Hz). Small differences in any of these aspects can make a big difference in the SPL reading.

65-90 - Note that I bought a few meters and use my phone and they all read different, by quite alot.  The ones I got were phone apps and $5 to 30$ units, so not high end calibrated devices.  I returned them all since I did not know which one was accurate.  

75 db +-10, more or less. Maybe some peaks into 90-95 db when I play large scale orchestra music, but nothing louder than that. I use the NIOSH SLM iOS app to measure.