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09-16-2011, 11:14 AM
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| Donating YT 1000 Club Member  Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Toluca Lake, CA
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|  Squeaky Toys & Dangerous Sound Levels? I am a sound recording engineer. I was quite surprised, when I was playing with Buster and one of his squeaky toys, at how loud the squeak actually was! So surprised that I brought it into work and measured it's loudness with a Sound Pressure Level meter. This toy was putting out a a huge 106-104 db SPL (decibels of sound pressure levels) I looked it up in the charts according to them the permissible exposure time for continuous time weighted average noise is under 4 minutes.  This is a chewing toy and therefore the squeak is right up at his ear when he plays with it. I wonder if one of the causes of dogs going deaf is the exposure to that loud of a sound over the course of their lives. Honestly I was quite shocked by how loud it actually was. I am going to have to go through all of Buster's toys now to check out how loud they are!  Dangerous Decibels How Loud is Too Loud?
__________________ Carolyn  Buster Brown   "The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything." Last edited by Buster Brown; 09-16-2011 at 11:16 AM. |
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09-16-2011, 11:19 AM
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| Living In Paradise! Donating Member  Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Ewa Beach on the island of Oahu
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|  wow...that's interesting. I'm wondering if that is why Ahi chooses certain squeaky toys over others? hmmm..
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09-16-2011, 11:33 AM
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| YT 1000 Club Member  Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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| whoa, interesting! but scary ciz Ziggy loves skeeky toys
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09-16-2011, 11:52 AM
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09-16-2011, 12:06 PM
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| YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
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| ^^ yeah i agree..and i usually chck the noise level in shop (this wasn't for safety or anything, but for my tolerance levels, lol) now ill do it for both.. thanks for sharing!!
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09-16-2011, 12:13 PM
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| Wow this IS interesting!! Now, I must restrict them to playing okay sounds toys. Can you tell us which toy it was that you recorded? That way, I can eliminate those. Or, can you record the sound so I know how loud is too loud. lol Sadly, my babies only like the LOUD ones....
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