In Reply to: So you can hear your neighbor playing music!!! posted by EngHelp on April 7, 2010 at 19:44:21:
45dB - but figure 35dB as a minimum and only about 20dB in the lower frequencies... The STC does not consider any frequencies below 100Hz.
But I consider ambient levels above 30 dBA in my listening room barely tolerable - It's the dynamics of the music that help me immerse into the performance.
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