The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.
I'm sure that will raise a red flag with residents. For Clear Channel to ask to go from 65 decibels to 75 decibels, that's not doing much to reduce the noise.
I have an audiologist friend at Wichita State University who actually pulls off earphones of students he sees and, in the interest of science, asks if he can measure the output of the signal going into their heads. He found that often students were listening at 110 to 120 decibels.
Toy telephones are commonly louder than 90 decibels. If a toy that's held to an adult's ear hurts, it's too loud for children.
I thank the Savior personally for bearing all which I added to His hemorrhaging at every pore for all humanity in Gethsemane. I thank Him for bearing what I added to the decibels of His piercing soul cry atop Calvary.
Even at 85 decibels, you may not experience it that day, that week or that year, but if you continue listening to noise at that level you could have hearing damage over time.
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