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Re: I'm gonna have to disagree John

I agree that you can hurt your ears, AND 'ringing bigtime' after a concert is a good indication that you have been exposed too much. This happened to me in 1970, when I first went to work with the Grateful Dead. Janis Joplin sat in with the Dead, and I was virtually sitting on the loudspeakers that night. It was a warning, but subsequently I was a bit more careful, yet the actual (B&K) soundmeter readings on stage could be 120-130dB of BASS energy, not midrange energy, and it seemed to be OK.
Of course, if I saw that the roadies, musicians, the mixing engineers were now using hearing aids, I would regret my exposure more than I do, but let's be realistic.
How loud can an AR-3 loudspeaker get, when driven by a tubed 60W amplifier? Why don't some of you 'engineers' out there calculate that for me? That was the highest standard advertised by Edgar Villicher when he was with AR.

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