Question to Those Who Own Peltor X5A Earmuffs, Who Hear Both a Hiss and a High-Pitch Tone

[Bill Bauer]

What is the difference between the TV and just not overdoing it in the first place? Noise is noise...

You can't control the volume you get exposed to on a noisy street, but you can control the volume of your TV or computer.

Sure you can control the volume, but almost any show or movie will have scenes that get much louder without any warning.

Try lowering the overall volume on your computer. You will see that if you do that, those spikes in volume are not going to be too loud.

 

[Gman]

I find I tolerate my car radio better than computer. It's something about built in speakers that makes the sound irritating. The speakers aren't even front facing.

 

[AZeurotuner]

Though between boundries. There is a maximum level for television broadcasts.
I do doubt the same excists on facebook-video's though for instance.

I don't believe there is anything on the books that limits decibel variation in television, it would take a lot of time and money to enforce that, for both the industry and the FCC. The only limit I'm aware of is the one concerning how loud commercials can be in comparison to the programming, and advertisers break that rule all the time.

 

[Bill Bauer]

I don't believe there is anything on the books that limits decibel variation in television,

In that case, it makes sense to watch everything on one's computer (where the overall volume Can be limited).