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Old Nov 25, 2003
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hey anyone know what ur civic is hitin in the dB's? i got a decibel meter but my readings seem kinda high for my little weak system. i got 2 kicker comp 10". kicker 150 watt amp and its telling me i hit 120's in the trunk with my music 1/4 way up
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120's is about right with 2 kicker 10's and a 150 watt amp...

and is it one of those radio shack meters? because those things are HORRIBLY inaccurate

its really not that hard to do 120's or 130's... 140's is where it starts getting hard to do
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what in real life would hit 130Db?

standing 5 feet from a train?
or a jet?
anything?
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ya its a radio shack one but i needed one for a physics project and it will do the job
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I have one of those Radio Shack meters and they are very inaccurate. In my last car it was reading 118db when the profesional meter was reading 128db. That 10db is a huge difference.
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what in real life would hit 130Db?

standing 5 feet from a train?
or a jet?
anything?
db levels to the human ear are very very relative to frequency...

140 db's of a human voice could very possibly give you permanent hearing damage and/or deafness with only very very short periods of time being played

140 db's of bass on teh other hand might damage your ears some, but only after long term exposure
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ahhh icic
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i hear 150db will stop your heart
true?
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it all depends on each human being... im sure 150's could kill someone, most likely theyd have to be 103 and have a bad heart, but some people could handle up to low 160's

regardless, itll hurt

as to exact decibel level for deaths, i have NO clue, but i do know the military is using high levels of low frequency as a weapon these days, although im not at liberty to disclose what =) (i got a friend that builds weapons for the department of defense, so hes told me a fw things)
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hahaha............i was hittin consistent 151 db's in my other car. I had (1) 15" RFL in a wall with a xtant 1001 and 2 deep cycle batteries.

That **** was loud......when i first installed it, it made me throw up 2 times cuz it was so much pressure, i couldn't imagine what 160 would feel like.
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^^^ oh, and i think that i played that at 57 or 58 Hz.
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lol the military is probably using brown noise... or maybe the MOAB is just whats making them crap their pants.




FYI: MOAB= mother of all bombs. 20klbs of hurt.
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