Dangerous Horn Speaker SPLs: How Best to Protect Your Hearing?

[ajant]

My biggest safety concern with horn speakers and super tweeters is protecting against unexpected peaks in program material. My room is 20 ft x 11 ft-then across a 4 ft wide hallway and into a 9 ft x 8 kitchen. A triangular ceiling that peaks at 11 ft is above everything. I plan to sit 11 ft from speakers with mid horn/driver and tweeter like these, but minus the back loaded horn. https://josephcrowe.com/products/speaker-system-no-2095

These woofers playing down to ~ 55Hz.

 

[Another Johnson]

The obvious answer to your question is to play your program at lower volume until you understand where it is loudest. Then set your volume level so that is low enough to mitigate your safety concerns at that point.

Or, you could wear 30dBA noise suppression ear muffs … but what’s the point?