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Re: If your amplifier is clipping, have you left the realm of high fidelity?

120 db is the threshold of pain cited in many texts. At that level, your body is telling you that you are being injured and to "make it stop." As you approach that level, if you don't feel pain, your hearing may already have been impaired. High SPLs reportedly create other medical problems besides hearing loss. The repeated thump thump thump of loud bass in rock can interfere with cardiac rhythm and can even affect the human immune system. Apparantly, the immune system considers this stimulus to be "other" and treats it much like an invading organism. Deliberately subjecting oneself to pain is usually considered pathological anyway. I always wonder about those guys in cars whose sound systems are so loud you can literally see their windows rattle.


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