How Loud Should Your Headphones Be?

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How loud is too loud when it comes to headphones?
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  • @allansh828
    @allansh8286 жыл бұрын

    Technology has become so advanced that Luke can be perfectly rendered in a photorealistic way.

  • @edsknife

    @edsknife

    6 жыл бұрын

    So that's why there's an aliasing effect on his hair.

  • @Shaynewarner1

    @Shaynewarner1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Not for me. I cant even watch this video in 240P. Guess this is what I get for eventually moving to a nice place, after staying in what was virtually hell for 13 years. YEY FOR NO DECENT WIFI CONNECTIONS! NOT EVEN FIBRE OPTIC IS AVAILABLE HERE! WHAT IS THIS PLACE? A CAVE?!

  • @cathallawlor989

    @cathallawlor989

    6 жыл бұрын

    Shaynewarner1 I only have ethernet that can only be connected to half my house and that one block of Ethernet worded servicing other houses adds up to the hundreds. Though I can watch hd. I cant plug in my pcs.

  • @dominicisidore

    @dominicisidore

    Жыл бұрын

    @@edsknife That's because of the green screen.......

  • @meloD30
    @meloD306 жыл бұрын

    Just came here to check Luke was alive. Stayed for the content.

  • @xorinzor

    @xorinzor

    6 жыл бұрын

    he's animated

  • @Drogenopa1

    @Drogenopa1

    6 жыл бұрын

    yup, the sound is cut from the videos mentioned and a couple more...

  • @sanchit1986

    @sanchit1986

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nice Beard.

  • @chestbuster1987

    @chestbuster1987

    6 жыл бұрын

    This was recorded months ago, he might be dead

  • @GreySharr

    @GreySharr

    6 жыл бұрын

    He's working on LTT's new website for their premium video service allowing them not to rely on YT if I remember well

  • @emudshit
    @emudshit6 жыл бұрын

    I want loud headphones to drown out the voices in my head

  • @emudshit

    @emudshit

    6 жыл бұрын

    seems the voices have figured out how to use youtube :(

  • @ender_scythe2879

    @ender_scythe2879

    6 жыл бұрын

    oh my _emudshit_ that is an *edgy comment*

  • @cthedosboss5113

    @cthedosboss5113

    6 жыл бұрын

    plug the head phones into your head

  • @jesusalfonso1528

    @jesusalfonso1528

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ya freak

  • @sidkapoor9085

    @sidkapoor9085

    6 жыл бұрын

    Even tho l like your comment, Dragon ball is dead dude! Get over yourselves.

  • @MorriganJade
    @MorriganJade6 жыл бұрын

    From Reddit I always like the explanation of: "Don't listen to as loud as you can handle, but the opposite, as soft as you can handle." and "With open backed headphones, try snapping your finger at arms-reach while listening to music. If you still can hear it properly, you're fine"

  • @HiHACKER
    @HiHACKER6 жыл бұрын

    Nah...i increase volume because i can't hear while eating. like right now....eating at 3 am.

  • @itz_yeastic

    @itz_yeastic

    3 жыл бұрын

    LOL

  • @TheSweMaster
    @TheSweMaster6 жыл бұрын

    LUKE IS BACK! No more bad puns from Linus. ;)

  • @SkullcrusherGamingTV

    @SkullcrusherGamingTV

    6 жыл бұрын

    YoutoJacob TheSweMaster I suppose you could say you didn’t want to HEAR Linus? ;D

  • @BenPotts

    @BenPotts

    6 жыл бұрын

    return of the jedi

  • @imakuniaw
    @imakuniaw6 жыл бұрын

    Luke. Is. Back. Not "wrong", just "back"....

  • @vilkku792

    @vilkku792

    6 жыл бұрын

    Luke. Was. Wrong. Now Luke. Is. Back.

  • @PhoenixLive_YT
    @PhoenixLive_YT6 жыл бұрын

    i want loud Headphones to listen to Luke sexy voice ^^

  • @kannansellaiyah948

    @kannansellaiyah948

    6 жыл бұрын

    Then the SteelSeries Siberia v2 MSI edition is good for you.

  • @luuketaylor

    @luuketaylor

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey, I can help with that too...

  • @lukeguest7748

    @lukeguest7748

    6 жыл бұрын

    Phoenix thanks ;)

  • @lukeaspinall977

    @lukeaspinall977

    6 жыл бұрын

    Phoenix ty

  • @lukeaspinall977

    @lukeaspinall977

    6 жыл бұрын

    Great Lukes think alike lol

  • @SpecialEDy
    @SpecialEDy6 жыл бұрын

    I don't make a lot of money, but I have a pair of Bose QC35 that I wear everyday. If something happened to them, I'd eat ramen noodles for a month to buy another pair if I had to.

  • @vanni8u

    @vanni8u

    3 жыл бұрын

    You should check out the Soundcore life Q30's

  • @alanaktion
    @alanaktion6 жыл бұрын

    Equalizer APO is seriously awesome. Made my overly bass-y headphones sound much more correct with a bit of tweaking.

  • @railerswim
    @railerswim6 жыл бұрын

    Luke! It's been a long time!

  • @slap_my_hand
    @slap_my_hand6 жыл бұрын

    dude, 85% of the people in this comment section don't know how to use an equalizer.

  • @nednav8585

    @nednav8585

    6 жыл бұрын

    StarTrek123456 i dont. But i like the left thingy ;)

  • @mouurusai

    @mouurusai

    6 жыл бұрын

    He also does not know, you need to suppress unnecessary frequencies, and not to amplify the necessary ones, if you do not want to get clipping, of course.

  • @Laurabeck329

    @Laurabeck329

    6 жыл бұрын

    You shouldn't use equalizer anyway. It's somebody's job to make the music sound good, you can only ruin it by messing about with equalizers. The best you can do is buy good speakers, headphones and use good quality files.

  • @flameshana9

    @flameshana9

    6 жыл бұрын

    And sadly these comments prove the first guy right. 1. If you get clipping by using an equaliser then it's poorly made. You do not need to be a programmer to use one. They should never induce clipping under any circumstance. 2. Buying better equipment costs money while equalisers are free. They do a decent job until you can save up for something better. That is their entire purpose. To cover for a weakness, not replace it and claim it's cured. That would be a lie. You cannot restore (precise) frequency response any more than you can gain pixels back from a shrunken jpg. You can only estimate them. 3. You can absolutely improve the sound of a low-mid quality devices with an equaliser. That is their purpose. If you all heard that equalisers can work magic then no wonder you think they're garbage when they fail to do so. A hammer, like an equaliser is a tool. It doesn't build something for you, but you can make good things with it. Or you can just buy something made by a pro instead. But if you already have a hammer why not use it to fix those nails that are poking out and getting in your way.

  • @erikk77

    @erikk77

    6 жыл бұрын

    As most people get older their hearing gets worse. To make up for these hearing changes and sensitivities an equalizer can restore one's hearing to a certain extent. It however can't restore the frequencies that have be lost in the higher ranges such as, above 13 kHz.

  • @TheBrokenKingTV
    @TheBrokenKingTV6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for watching Techquickie!

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    @threepointonefour607

    6 жыл бұрын

    Click the subscribe button, then enable notifications with the bell icon so you won’t miss any future videos.

  • @gold4963

    @gold4963

    6 жыл бұрын

    And always wear your seatbelt!

  • @Dittachu

    @Dittachu

    6 жыл бұрын

    Whether your a bass head, a metal fan or just like hearing my voice overwhelm your consciousness when you watch Techquickie.

  • @peasant_shots

    @peasant_shots

    6 жыл бұрын

    And you've probably also heard the dire warnings about what loud noises can do to your hearing. But how loud is too loud? I mean obviously nobody's gonna listen to their headphones so loudly that it causes physical pain!

  • @gold4963

    @gold4963

    6 жыл бұрын

    But could the volume be high enough without you even knowing it?

  • @trijiv5624
    @trijiv56246 жыл бұрын

    What's Luke saying? I can't hear him. :(

  • @orange_man_from

    @orange_man_from

    6 жыл бұрын

    Try Turning up Your headphones

  • @heldensatko
    @heldensatko6 жыл бұрын

    luke is alive ?

  • @y.decimal

    @y.decimal

    6 жыл бұрын

    He’s being held captive in the basement and only gets let out to produce videos at gunpoint

  • @giorgio84

    @giorgio84

    6 жыл бұрын

    Rude

  • @cradilyz

    @cradilyz

    6 жыл бұрын

    probably recorded ages ago

  • @LazyOtaku

    @LazyOtaku

    6 жыл бұрын

    +Gior Gio you're not dead?

  • @giorgio84

    @giorgio84

    6 жыл бұрын

    idk how to reply on that

  • @runegjermundbo1633
    @runegjermundbo16336 жыл бұрын

    nice and interesting video, though the title is quite misleading. The video gives a lot of good tips on how to get a better experience without increasing volume, but it does not answer the question in the title (“there is no way to know” is not an answer, and if there is no answer, then don’t choose a title that implies otherwise)

  • @Dave-hq5xi
    @Dave-hq5xi6 жыл бұрын

    i work in a cabinet shop and wear ear protection all the time. losing my hearing to the radio, hopper, and other machines is a lot scarier than losing a finger to a table saw.

  • @pogchamp4542
    @pogchamp45426 жыл бұрын

    0:15 the one reason i own head phones

  • @distastefulvideos
    @distastefulvideos6 жыл бұрын

    Good to see Luke. He is good at what he does.

  • @oranebeast
    @oranebeast6 жыл бұрын

    "how loud should your headphones be" answers "how to get detail out of sound" ugh

  • @eideticex
    @eideticex6 жыл бұрын

    I've always wondered whether it's a hard limit or something we can train our bodies for. The reason being what I have listened to is well above the mentioned 75dB limit. I spent a chunk of my life playing guitar through a tube amplifier plugged into a powerful 4x12 cabinet. Most of that chunk was spent with the volume so loud that you can't even feel, let alone hear a chainsaw right next to you. You really can't hear anything other than the guitar at that volume. However I have really good hearing, often hear things that others don't like coworkers on the other side of a brick wall hushed trash talking. I know pressure has a lot to do with it. Loud sound doesn't mean much if there isn't enough pressure to drive your eardrums but at the same time you will still hear it loudly despite the lack of increased pressure say at a rock concert. I know from experiments with a powerful subwoofer and a function generator that frequency plays into it as well and to some extent modulation.

  • @TaxelGames
    @TaxelGames6 жыл бұрын

    New Host? I like him :)

  • @AnotherGlitch

    @AnotherGlitch

    6 жыл бұрын

    TaxelGames linus isn't on fit

  • @giorgio84

    @giorgio84

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hes luke and hes not new

  • @elettrofans

    @elettrofans

    6 жыл бұрын

    Your avatar says it all

  • @GhostyOcean

    @GhostyOcean

    6 жыл бұрын

    Gior Gio the *woosh* is strong with you

  • @alanr7215

    @alanr7215

    6 жыл бұрын

    TaxelGames fake fan alert !

  • @amirroohi4566
    @amirroohi45666 жыл бұрын

    I honestly missed him, happy to have him back again nice video

  • @tubawest9768
    @tubawest97686 жыл бұрын

    Surprisingly well thought out

  • @HaizeyWings
    @HaizeyWings6 жыл бұрын

    I was standing a few feet away from a woman the other day, and I could clearly hear the song she was listening to... And she was using earbuds. :/ She definitely needs to watch this.

  • @krank3869
    @krank38696 жыл бұрын

    Louder=Better -Carnage

  • @13darkfighter

    @13darkfighter

    6 жыл бұрын

    Very very way more louder -Carnage

  • @professordd8731

    @professordd8731

    6 жыл бұрын

    Louder > better

  • @basshead.

    @basshead.

    6 жыл бұрын

    More bass the better, nothing else matters.

  • @georgechar7319

    @georgechar7319

    6 жыл бұрын

    Krank I dont know what it does but it makes it sound way way way more stronger *turns volume knob*

  • @GatisGirdenis

    @GatisGirdenis

    6 жыл бұрын

    There was a study made on how louder music makes it seem better than it actually is. Like, in festivals you might find yourself jamming out to cringy songs while at home you can barely listen it, idk, weird.

  • @Jaloogman
    @Jaloogman6 жыл бұрын

    Ah Luke. It's good to listen to you hosting a tech quickie

  • @campos3452
    @campos34526 жыл бұрын

    Good looking out, man. And actually I just learned something that could help me hear enemies footsteps in game! GG

  • @HellDuke-
    @HellDuke-6 жыл бұрын

    I possibly damaged my hearing already. I can still hear everything just fine as I always did, however I can no longer enjoy complete silence as when there isn't sufficient background noise I have a loud hum in my ear. You can adapt to it, but it's really anoying. Though might not be headsets either, who knows, still need to check in with a doctor on that

  • @MutaharFarooq
    @MutaharFarooq6 жыл бұрын

    I used to think i was listening to music too loud until you said as loud as a blender so I think i'm safe. Still, my ears are a little too sensitive for some reason.

  • @DrZoidberg2005

    @DrZoidberg2005

    6 жыл бұрын

    ye my music is like normal sound, cant be heard at all until u actually put on the headphones , but my ears still hhurt after a bit. (inside)

  • @MasterTaiki

    @MasterTaiki

    6 жыл бұрын

    lol play an audio clip of a blender. sometimes our memory does us poor favors. I once bought headphones and had a great several hours a day experience with them. They weren't high end, but good enough. Eventually, my ears became extremely sensitive and i started to hear ringing. It took like 3 weeks of loud music for my ears to be physically in pain from noise not even that loud. Mind you I kept the windows volume at 100% and would turn down app volume like the youtube sound option to control it or spotify. Which is bad control options because sometimes windows will accidentally play some loud notification or you forget to turn down in-app sound. I did so for balance and sound fidelity, but it was fine either way actually. Breaks from music/ gaming are good. I didn't go to the doc cause they can't do much (no cure for tinnitus/hearing loss but sometimes they give you mega doses of vitamins for it if it was recent) and I asked my parents for hearing plugs incase I was exposed to anything loud (which i was and the tinnitus became permanent) but they forget and never bought those plugs for the ears for me.

  • @Porsche996TT

    @Porsche996TT

    6 жыл бұрын

    Dr. Zoidberg Check the eustachian tube in you ears for inflammation or blockage.

  • @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    6 жыл бұрын

    A blender in a quiet space (kitchen usually) sounds way louder to your brain than a crowd in the morning rush hour in any city, but that's actually wrong. The crowd is probably louder (depends a bit on how loud your blender is), but because the background noise is constant, your brain adjusts to it. Airplane noise in a seat behind the engines at cruising speed is somewhere around 90dB and to most that also doesn't bother the people in a plane too much because it's constant and your brain fools you to believe it's not too loud. So don't be fooled by your brain and make sure to take care of your ears! If your ears hurt or start ringing, that's a VERY clear sign that there is hearing damage. Even without any signs, you already can loose your hearing.

  • @bigdaz7272

    @bigdaz7272

    6 жыл бұрын

    Might sound a bit weird but instead of constantly turning up the volume levels clean your ears out regular when your in the shower or bath, let them fill up with water as it softens the wax and lets it come out easier and ffs don't be ramming cotton buds down them bad idea. A lot of time your ears will hurt purely because of wax build up so if rinsing them out with warm water in the bath doesn't do the trick use ear drops, ones with Peroxide do the job i find pretty good. Ear Bud style in ear headphones with Comply Expanding foam tips are awesome for blocking out external sound on the cheap so you don't need to crank the volume up but if your funds allow check out the new Sony WH-1000XM2 Bluetooth Noise Cancelling Headphones they are epic.

  • @abbe6100
    @abbe61006 жыл бұрын

    @Techquickie & @LinusTechTips: I think this is a good moment to talk about the Sound in YOUR videos. I find that in almost every video you produce you have Compressed or Amped the presenters voice so much that my ears feel like they are "Bunching" or "curling" themselves up because the voice is just painful to listen to, and you're not even that loud. If you wonder if it might be my Headphones, I use a Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 headset with an Hegel Audio external soundcard. Anyone else have this issue?

  • @platinumhck
    @platinumhck6 жыл бұрын

    Welcome back, Slick!

  • @skyknight6467
    @skyknight64676 жыл бұрын

    they should be loud enough that it hertz

  • @erikk77

    @erikk77

    6 жыл бұрын

    ...KILL-o-hertz

  • @wvvwkx
    @wvvwkx6 жыл бұрын

    If you need an equalizer to listen to music, please just buy decent headphones with flat response (and listen to best quality music) like this boi says. Music gets mastered exactly to avoid having to manually tweak frequencies when you listen to a track. The only time you might want to equalize is when you're listening to music very very very quietly but just because our ears are less sensitive to bass frequencies at low volumes, but then we're not talking about loud music. In the audio field there are no tricks, if you want quality at the high volumes you have to pay. The difference between cheap headphones/earphones and a good pair of headphones is night and day even if you're not an audiophile.

  • @mouurusai

    @mouurusai

    6 жыл бұрын

    Your brain and ears are also made on the conveyor as are the headphones?

  • @pampamcuap

    @pampamcuap

    6 жыл бұрын

    monitor headphones all the way

  • @flameshana9

    @flameshana9

    6 жыл бұрын

    While you're correct, you're forgetting that equalisers are free and good headphones are far from that. Why would anyone want to pay when they don't need to. It'd be like buying fruit from a store when it's growing in your backyard already.

  • @LionWithTheLamb

    @LionWithTheLamb

    6 жыл бұрын

    Some music has horrible compression and equalization too.

  • @eac-ox2ly

    @eac-ox2ly

    6 жыл бұрын

    But equalizers are also useful if you wanna achieve a certain sound color in a headphone that, left unequalized, would not have it. I usually like to turn down treble a little bit in most my headphones, as I find them a bit too loud.

  • @felcram6428
    @felcram64286 жыл бұрын

    Instant liked for Luke ! We need more Luke.

  • @SonGoku-mj5pq
    @SonGoku-mj5pq6 жыл бұрын

    Good to see you again, Luke.

  • @jishnudesarkar
    @jishnudesarkar6 жыл бұрын

    Anyone else lower the headphone volume while watching this? XD

  • @ElectronicsForFun

    @ElectronicsForFun

    6 жыл бұрын

    no

  • @TargetedFox

    @TargetedFox

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jishnu De sarkar I lowered it from 3 to 2

  • @johnparven6187

    @johnparven6187

    5 жыл бұрын

    Yep

  • @MrMagnat007
    @MrMagnat0076 жыл бұрын

    Oh Thank THE GODS.. Linus's voice is not conducive to delivering information on sound.. but Luke's is much easier to listen to.

  • @nattandvonreaper225
    @nattandvonreaper2256 жыл бұрын

    Welcome back luke!

  • @JayBmusic
    @JayBmusic6 жыл бұрын

    The EQ part is kind of important. Some people say that their speakers and headphones need to be linear for best music playback, but our ears are far from that, especially on low levels. In fact only the mid range between 1 and 4 kHz is what we hear best. If the volume drops below 85dB our ears will more and more lose the sense for bass and highs (see Fletcher-Munson for reference). That's where the loudness function of your playback device comes in. The lower the volume gets the more bass and highs it will boost. And suddenly without increasing the overall volume it sounds much louder, better and fuller.

  • @FSXgta
    @FSXgta6 жыл бұрын

    I prefer a flat response, and if your system has close to it you will hear the music the way it's meant to sound

  • @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    6 жыл бұрын

    Everyone's ears are different. Some ears receive sound from up close different than others, so 'flat' will always have some level of subjectivity. By the way, the mastering has some subjective bias as well, because not all mastering engineers make it sound 'flat'. Many of them are older and can't even hear above 15 kHz, while the young listeners might hear up to 20 kHz. Also, not all artists like their studio music to sound as if it was live. Music is an art form with many layers and we, as consumers, always add our own interpretation on top of all those layers.

  • @FSXgta

    @FSXgta

    6 жыл бұрын

    Good explaination and I agree with you

  • @Erikk_0
    @Erikk_06 жыл бұрын

    When's next time Luke? WHEN'S NEXT TIME?!?!

  • @benjaminliang5191
    @benjaminliang51915 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the great tips

  • @alexb-vh4nq
    @alexb-vh4nq6 жыл бұрын

    that was an actually quick techquickie lol helpful in a compact format, greaaat, but sources guys?

  • @edenn8240
    @edenn82406 жыл бұрын

    if only this video came out earlier i got tinnitus just recently from listening too loud

  • @matthewprather189

    @matthewprather189

    6 жыл бұрын

    Eden Ngo You knew going in that it was too loud if it was loud enough to give you tinnitus

  • @owlsight4499
    @owlsight44996 жыл бұрын

    3:01 "In ear MONITORS" Taking muscic to the next level

  • @Blattacker

    @Blattacker

    6 жыл бұрын

    Reference/studio grade speakers/headphones are generally referred to as monitors, yes.

  • @Kwotzi

    @Kwotzi

    6 жыл бұрын

    "In eye headphones"

  • @owlsight4499

    @owlsight4499

    6 жыл бұрын

    Today I learned - thank you!

  • @peter_smyth

    @peter_smyth

    6 жыл бұрын

    Monitor speakers are for MONITORING what you're playing/singing when making music.

  • @atishayjain4507

    @atishayjain4507

    6 жыл бұрын

    Search "Rose North Forest Headphones" or "KZ ZSR" thank me later

  • @TheNiteNinja19
    @TheNiteNinja196 жыл бұрын

    That bass in the equalizer bit.

  • @qs00_
    @qs00_6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!

  • @bendurrant975
    @bendurrant9756 жыл бұрын

    Much loud

  • @bendurrant975

    @bendurrant975

    6 жыл бұрын

    Much damage

  • @bendurrant975

    @bendurrant975

    6 жыл бұрын

    Much ad

  • @babelfishdude

    @babelfishdude

    6 жыл бұрын

    More louder

  • @rpglover101
    @rpglover1016 жыл бұрын

    Equalizer APO is also fantastic if you use headphones that are naturally too loud. If you find yourself turning down your headphones to the lowest volume Windows supports, and it's still too loud, give it a shot :)

  • @NaudVanDalen

    @NaudVanDalen

    7 ай бұрын

    How is that possible? How can headphones be too loud at only 2% volume? I set mine to 100% and add a 5 dB boost on top.

  • @harbingerofwarx995
    @harbingerofwarx9956 жыл бұрын

    When I use headphones I turn them up too loud because I can't "feel" it enough. Now I stick to speakers with subwoofers as much as possible as even at low volume I can feel the vibrations from the subwoofer.

  • @Waterwater743
    @Waterwater7436 жыл бұрын

    glad luke is back

  • @nahuelcutrera
    @nahuelcutrera6 жыл бұрын

    great video !! big audiophile headphones tend to be "plane" sounding because they are made to monitor instruments. I'd prefer them like that over the "way over the top bass stuff" that the consumer level headphones try to push on people. The sound is just way more natural, it feels like you are there.

  • @WhyteLis21
    @WhyteLis216 жыл бұрын

    Nope I'm 90 year old and my hearing is super fine. Still can hear just as good as when I was 25 year old. 😁

  • @ScienceMarcYT
    @ScienceMarcYT6 жыл бұрын

    I've noticed that every once in a while windows lowers the volume. I thought I was going deaf when I suddenly had to crank up the volume nob to 100% and I still struggled to hear. The volume manager didn't show anything wrong either. I was able to fix it by turning my overall volume to 0% and then turning it back up.

  • @MrDiarukia
    @MrDiarukia6 жыл бұрын

    To mitigate the problem of sudden volume spikes use programs like Soundlock which put a cieling on the max volume coming from your system.

  • @exe7435
    @exe74355 жыл бұрын

    I put my Volume to MAXUMUM When I listen to Euro beat

  • @egz3637
    @egz36376 жыл бұрын

    Max on the volume adjuster thing, 16 in all windows settings xD

  • @falsernet

    @falsernet

    6 жыл бұрын

    You like interference?

  • @Peekofwar
    @Peekofwar6 жыл бұрын

    I only turn up the volume when I'm watching videos that have their audio notably lower than others. Like for instance, Madam Sharky is a user on this website, and her videos are a lot lower in volume. I seem to remember having trouble hearing her in those videos when I was in a public area, wearing headphones, with the volume maxed on my device. On my PC at home, typically I have the volume set to twenty percent. Occasionally I'll raise it up to thirty if a video seems a little too quiet to others.

  • @DisruptedConnection
    @DisruptedConnection6 жыл бұрын

    Maybe you can do like a different types of servers? What to look for when you want a Data server, or a game server and so on.

  • @BonfireG
    @BonfireG6 жыл бұрын

    "How Loud Should Your Headphones Be?" Start of the video : *tHaNkS fOr wAtChInG tEcHqUiCkIE*

  • @1019wc1019
    @1019wc10196 жыл бұрын

    Loud enough to hear footsteps on B site when you are walking through lower tuns

  • @lobsterbark

    @lobsterbark

    6 жыл бұрын

    Just turn up the frequency of footsteps in your eq.

  • @JennyA
    @JennyA6 жыл бұрын

    Wish I had known all this back when I was a teenager. My hearing has started to go in the last 10 years and now I'm trying to save for hearing aids. I rarely listen to music and only to a spoken voice now.

  • @harmanrockz
    @harmanrockz6 жыл бұрын

    Very useful information 😊✌️

  • @hoofed
    @hoofed6 жыл бұрын

    “How Loud Should Your Headphones Be?” Huh? “HOW LOUD SHOULD YOUR HEADPHONES BE?” Half past three.

  • @339blackdiamond
    @339blackdiamond6 жыл бұрын

    "but no one will listen to their music so loud that it causes them physical pain!" uhh...so I shouldn't?😂#MetalHead

  • @cracklingice
    @cracklingice6 жыл бұрын

    I used to use Equalizer APO. Wasn't happy with the sound profile of my cheap Best Buy brand headphones but that software made it so much better. I'm not a Beats sound profile person and the headphones had so much bass it was uncomfortable to listen to them. There were also no high end sounds - they were basically completely missing. E. APO wasn't a simple setup but I was able to roll off the bass and bring back the highs and made the cheap headphones sound like they cost three times more than they did. That $20 headset with the equalizer sounded better to me than my non adjusted G230s do and they came in at twice the price. They're far more comfortable though so I'm good with them.

  • @tamoo6028
    @tamoo60285 жыл бұрын

    Im that only person at school who listens to music at safe levels during class, everyone else blasts music, i could hear it like 10 feet away

  • @tshai
    @tshai6 жыл бұрын

    2:17 hand on the right side of the screen

  • @AnjelicSwagAMuffin
    @AnjelicSwagAMuffin6 жыл бұрын

    See that's why I wired my sound card directly to my Temporal Lobes, directly into my brain, no need to hurt my beautiful ears that way XD

  • @waso-suwi

    @waso-suwi

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ultrawide Gaming XD

  • @Ondrix
    @Ondrix6 жыл бұрын

    I already have some hearing problems (tinnitus) from some events in the past. Due to this, and the fact I've never been one to really crank up the volume, I've actually gone the opposite route. As my hearing adjusts to the volume of my headphones I slowly DECREASE the volume. It forces my hearing to work harder, which partially combats my tinnitus, and usually by the end of a long gaming/music session on my PC my volume controls are down to about 10 or so. That way if I want to "crank" the sound, usually to hear very quiet sounds in a game and only rarely for music, going up to 15 or 20 on my volume control is usually plenty. I also plan on investing in some quality multi channel headphones (currently stuck with earbuds 😒), and getting some sort of equalizer, which will help even more by separating the highs, lows, and mids making them more discernable to me.

  • @flameshana9

    @flameshana9

    6 жыл бұрын

    I've heard that the high-frequency sounds are the ones that make tinnitus worse. Do you know if that's true?

  • @Ondrix

    @Ondrix

    6 жыл бұрын

    flameshana9 I know decibel levels matter....... no idea if the frequency level of the sound makes a difference.

  • @apaulo617
    @apaulo6176 жыл бұрын

    I actually really agree with the last two things luke said, I listen to a lot of bass music, so I got closed bass head phones. One time at band camp, I was having trouble hearing the bass so i cranked it a little to high when the bass dropped they rattled off my head. I was like ohhh it's the song lol.

  • @theartist124
    @theartist1246 жыл бұрын

    Until my ears are bleeding!💦

  • @jettsioson2799
    @jettsioson27996 жыл бұрын

    1:17 Dota is life

  • @ehheehlikaege1235

    @ehheehlikaege1235

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jett Sioson YEAH!

  • @kiririn3103

    @kiririn3103

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jett Sioson lol* :)

  • @anthonyschlessman1848

    @anthonyschlessman1848

    6 жыл бұрын

    *shit

  • @andynonimuss6298
    @andynonimuss62984 жыл бұрын

    • First off, you should only listen to 83 dB or less maximum and not 85 dB. After only 8 hours, 85 dB can cause permanent damage to the hair cells in the inner ear, leading to hearing loss. • Second, never ever use any smartphone as an SPL metering device. Depending on the phone model, they can be off by as much as +/- 10 dB! • Third, to protect your ears and prevent hearing loss, get a quality Class 1 ( +/-1.0 dB accuracy) or Class 2 ( +/-1.5 dB accuracy) SPL meter. I personally use a Testo 815 Class 1 SPL meter. • Fourth, the SPL meter itself needs the ability to be adjustable for calibration. You can calibrate your SPL meter with something like a CEM SC-05 calibrator ( +/-0.5 dB accuracy) or a Reed Instruments R8090 calibrator ( +/-0.5 dB accuracy). • Fifth, using a Class 2 SPL meter with a ( +/-1.5 dB) margin of error plus the margin of error in the calibrator device ( +/-0.5 dB) is a total of ( +/-2 dB). A Class 2 meter showing 83 dB could actually be 85 dB and the same Class 2 meter showing 85 dB could actually be 87 dB! So that's the reason for using 83 dB as the maximum safe listening level. • Sixth, the overall lesson is to stop listening to this age-old advice of monitoring at 85 dB (and using a highly inferior cell phone as a metering device) to protect your ears from permanent hearing loss!

  • @thoughtyness
    @thoughtyness6 жыл бұрын

    Luke, what hair product do you use? Or is it confidential?

  • @TheJohnDenim
    @TheJohnDenim6 жыл бұрын

    I watch just to be bombarded with crappy adverts because youtube has changed, making montetization pretty much pointless.

  • @WazzaBrown
    @WazzaBrown6 жыл бұрын

    number 1 boys

  • @GrandNebSmada
    @GrandNebSmada6 жыл бұрын

    That Equalizer APO program is legitimately really great! I use it on every computer

  • @xgxfhzxfuhfjgfhgf

    @xgxfhzxfuhfjgfhgf

    6 жыл бұрын

    where to download? shoud i trust sourceforge to not put me some virus?

  • @luedriver
    @luedriver6 жыл бұрын

    this might be a stretch, as I don't fully understand it, but I read somewhere that one of the reasons people turn up the volume is that solid state amps sound better with the volume turned up (80db or higher) while old style tube amps sound better with the volume at normal listening levels (under 80db),

  • @dimitarmihov7757
    @dimitarmihov77576 жыл бұрын

    Suggestion: Luke's mom as fast as possible >:)

  • @AzideFox
    @AzideFox6 жыл бұрын

    #Staxbro

  • @holo6883
    @holo68835 жыл бұрын

    Minimum volume is too loud for me when I turn on volume sync unless I use an equalizer with bass boost It does depend on the headphones themselves most of the time though Am I doing something wrong here?

  • @analkarldervierte1759
    @analkarldervierte17596 жыл бұрын

    Quick question: I want to have my programs to output sound to the different 3.5mm jacks on the back of my PC. For example, games go through the the output for the front two speakers in a 7.1 surround setup, my browser through the ones for the rear, teamspeak through the bass and so on. Is there a way to du that? Yes, I tried googling it, but with no success.

  • @Bryan11210
    @Bryan112106 жыл бұрын

    "How Loud Should Your Headphones Be?" - Doesn't even answer this. Please title responsibly.

  • @ubeyondmad1
    @ubeyondmad16 жыл бұрын

    It should be at a level where the person next to you can't hear the music

  • @lobsterbark

    @lobsterbark

    6 жыл бұрын

    Most decent headphones are audible to the person next to you even at low volume.

  • @mathias2150

    @mathias2150

    6 жыл бұрын

    If they are open-back, if not however they most likey won't hear a thing :)

  • @edgyyoutuberuser5991

    @edgyyoutuberuser5991

    6 жыл бұрын

    mathias2150 semi open

  • @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    @Small_Vocaloid_UTAU

    6 жыл бұрын

    depending on the isolation of your headphones/earphones, your hearing might still suffer a lot without bothering the neighbours.

  • @TECHN01200
    @TECHN012006 жыл бұрын

    Hey, Luke is back!

  • @samsinger5135
    @samsinger51356 жыл бұрын

    hey guys... love your techquickie vids... a lot of them really help explaining things that have been curious about for years...here is one that about talking about... i know all of you are really savvy on computers but would you suggest any computer doctors like one i use is system mechanic... or what sort of programs could be used to keep things running fast, clean and reliable ...

  • @samsinger5135

    @samsinger5135

    6 жыл бұрын

    i think you don't quite get what i was meaning a PC doctor that helps clear out cookies, junk files, free up ram and defrages ext, ext, ext in a single program... i'm not talking about any antivirus or anti malware .... a computer doctor like PC clean up or other programs of the like.... can they be really worth it

  • @IndieMarkus

    @IndieMarkus

    6 жыл бұрын

    No - just no. Keep your installation clean and without any adware. If you are using windows 10 and you know what you are doing, you don't even need an antivirus at all. RAM cannot be freed just out of nowhere - new operating systems manage the ram usage optimally as is nowadays. If you really want to clean your PC up, then uninstall programs that you don't need and check your autostart options (Under windows 10 it's in your task manager under the "Start-up" tab) and disable all the things you don't need necessarily on startup (like skype, discord, steam or MS Word). If you think your PC is already "infected" or slow, then don't use cleaners, but make a new clean installation of the OS - this is probably faster, since it saves time in the long run.

  • @cheater00
    @cheater006 жыл бұрын

    If you want to boost bass, you're better off cutting OUT frequencies between 700 and 7000 Hz and boosting the rest with volume - it'll give you better bass. It's because bands that aren't flat on a graphic eq have less power and clarity whether they're boosted or cut, so it's best to use them to cut. Plus it will protect your hearing at higher volumes - Fletcher-Munson curves dictate that to hear the same thing at higher volume (SPL) as you do at a lower volume, you /have/ to do the mid range cut I described above!

  • @cheater00

    @cheater00

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ardolf Hortler sure! I should've said, "if you want to boost bass, then ...". The video talks about this at some point.

  • @cheater00

    @cheater00

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ardolf Hortler also see the bit I added about Fletcher-Munson curves - you actually have to cut the mid range at higher volumes otherwise you're left with a screaming, middly sound

  • @cheater00

    @cheater00

    6 жыл бұрын

    m00nasteroidkg that is not correct. Transducers get middly when you turn up the volume. It is not a common myth that subtractive equalization is better. You have done nothing to dispel that myth other than say it is a common myth. The frequencies are not arbitrary. They're a good starting point based on experience. Most people's setups will make their headphones (except for in-ears) lack in bass and highs. This is my experience and if you surveyed how most people listen to music you'd arrive at the same conclusion. It's funny you are arguing against my tip even though it is very general. I didn't even mention what depth to set the eq to. Is it 10 dB? 0.1 dB? I didn't specify it because it's left for the person doing it to figure out what they like best. So in fact you are arguing in a very scientific manner against something that is only a general tip. Well done. Next up you can argue against "wash your hands" and that ever recurring classic "don't stare at the sun". As for ear damage, you are wrong again. Our ears are very insensitive to bass. You can easily listen to 130-150 dB SPL of bass frequencies below 50 Hz for some time and nothing bad will happen to you. The lower the frequency the less sensitivity, otherwise the changes in pressure due to weather would be making all of us deaf. And guess what happens to your ear drums when they transmit low frequencies at high SPL? They spend more time at the extremes of their vibration, becoming less sensitive to higher frequencies. That's called inter-modulation distortion. It's a dual of the doppler distortion that happens in single-transducer loudspeakers. Hold your nose and blow, everything will become quieter. This is what happens. So in fact hearing more bass means hearing less of everything else. It's a simple experiment. Try performing it. You may well learn something from this.

  • @flos3328
    @flos33286 жыл бұрын

    I'm sorry, but this video was incredible useless. There is actually less information, than I expected. I get that you have not the time in this format to cover everything, but this seemed awfully vague. I know LTT can do better, and did better before.

  • @Hilblock
    @Hilblock6 жыл бұрын

    I like how that technical data headphone sheet is from the Sennheiser website...

  • @Snarethedrummer
    @Snarethedrummer6 жыл бұрын

    This isn't sponsored or meant to be an ad, but as a musician, I've stood by a great cheaper set of in-ear buds: the Panasonic hje120 (or 125) model, which do a great balance of bass mid and treble, and should only cost $15 max in North America. They also come in an assortment of colours. I additionally use them at venues or in the city if there's street noise I'm trying to avoid, as they're noise isolating. I have family members with ear issues and for me, losing my hearing young is scary, so anything I can do to both love my music and protect my ears is awesome.

  • @rushur5189
    @rushur51896 жыл бұрын

    REMEMBER ME!! *GETS LOST IN THE SEA OF COMMENTS*

  • @ElectronicsForFun

    @ElectronicsForFun

    6 жыл бұрын

    don't you... forget about me... don't don't don't don't don... *EVERYBODY FORGOT*

  • @rushur5189

    @rushur5189

    6 жыл бұрын

    Electronics For Fun oh no I'm forgot ):

  • @otto9141
    @otto91416 жыл бұрын

    pre-301 club!

  • @llawliet5009

    @llawliet5009

    6 жыл бұрын

    oHam I understood that reference

  • @shayan_ecksdee

    @shayan_ecksdee

    6 жыл бұрын

    301 is history

  • @deamon6681

    @deamon6681

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's not a thing anymore, fore like quite some time now.

  • @williamnguyen2392
    @williamnguyen23926 жыл бұрын

    whats a really recommended equalizer

  • @Fourtitude44
    @Fourtitude446 жыл бұрын

    The guy... He's back!

  • @Bhatakti_Hawas
    @Bhatakti_Hawas6 жыл бұрын

    Buy Sennheiser. The End

  • @falsernet

    @falsernet

    6 жыл бұрын

    Audio-Technica is better. Unless you need wireless or noise cancellation.

  • @TheMysteriousKnight

    @TheMysteriousKnight

    6 жыл бұрын

    Falsernet Lol the m50xs are awful what are you on?

  • @Edmo96

    @Edmo96

    6 жыл бұрын

    Did u ever listen to the Sennheiser Hd 600? I guess not...

  • @Stahntaru

    @Stahntaru

    6 жыл бұрын

    How much did they pay you?

  • @davidcox2459

    @davidcox2459

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sony’s MDR V6 or 7506 are a good choice if you don’t want to break the bank.

  • @chrochrocketman
    @chrochrocketman6 жыл бұрын

    it's not decibels that harm your hearing it's the hertz as a car audio enthusiast this is a controversial myth that is very misleading high frequencies are the cause for hearing loss high decibel levels are just a movement of air at a low frequency such as 140db+ at 50hz and below

  • @axeloto1311

    @axeloto1311

    6 жыл бұрын

    I will say it depends, our ears are more sensible to certain frequencies than other, and the decibels that are required to harm you depends on the frequencie. But your right high frequencies require less decibel than low frequencies to be harmfull.

  • @tennicktenstyl

    @tennicktenstyl

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh so these extreme subwoofers in your trunk aren't really that dangerous? I always wondered how those people could not go deaf after like a second of playing music on them lol

  • @htm4106

    @htm4106

    6 жыл бұрын

    The lower the hz the lower the damage? That means... full volume for you, Dethklok! Here I come!

  • @pasijutaulietuviuesas9174

    @pasijutaulietuviuesas9174

    6 жыл бұрын

    wittman22 Very rapid but small disruptions of air will not damage your hearing. From what I've been taught, it's not frequency that damages your hearing. High frequency receptors are smaller and more fragile while low frequency receptors are larger and more durable. So the same amplitude may damage your small high frequency receptors while not damage your bigger low frequency receptors. So it is true that in lower frequencies you have more tolerance to decibels than in higher frequencies, but it isn't the frequency that does the damage. This is why we lose higher frequency hearing first with age.

  • @Sman16

    @Sman16

    6 жыл бұрын

    can confirm I have had a 140+ decibel system in my truck for close to a year now with no notable hearing loss. As long as you only listen for a few minutes at a time you should be fine for the most part though if you do listen for too long your ears can feel "tired" if you have something equally as loud like a gunshot it will hurt a lot more because of the high frequency

  • @Benjamin-rq1fi
    @Benjamin-rq1fi6 жыл бұрын

    I like this new guy you have. It's almost like he's been around forever.

  • @SolarMechanic
    @SolarMechanic6 жыл бұрын

    The desk alignment at 1:19 hurts my heart.

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