How loud do open headphones get?

[Xyes]

I use my closed headphones at lot at night as not to bother others who may be sleeping.  Would open headphones ruin it?  What about in a separate room but still next to a sleeping person's room?

[soaringchicken]

Open headphones?

[Nuluvius]

Presumably it would depend on the quality/type of headphone and the volume...

 

[W-L]

I use my closed headphones at lot at night as not to bother others who may be sleeping.  Would open headphones ruin it?  What about in a separate room but still next to a sleeping person's room?

 

Something like the HD558 are open back headphones and it's comparable to having a pair of earbuds almost on full sitting on your table, so it's not super loud but still very clear, this all depends on each individual headphone though.

[MayflowerElectronics]

You should be fine if they are in a seperate room and you are not listening to  ear bleeding levels. Also each headphone is different on how much it leaks. HE-500's are very leaky, DT 990's/AKG k612's are less.

[Torg73]

I use my closed headphones at lot at night as not to bother others who may be sleeping.  Would open headphones ruin it?  What about in a separate room but still next to a sleeping person's room?

I have a pair of DT990 PRO's which are open and yes there is some sound bleeding from them but its not that loud it would wake up someone in the next room, unless your deaf and you need to turn the volume up where it hurts your hearing.  The black cherry MX switches from my Ducky keyboard is probably louder then the bleeding sound from the headphones so you should be ok.

[Xyes]

I have a pair of DT990 PRO's which are open and yes there is some sound bleeding from them but its not that loud it would wake up someone in the next room, unless your deaf and you need to turn the volume up where it hurts your hearing.  The black cherry MX switches from my Ducky keyboard is probably louder then the bleeding sound from the headphones so you should be ok.

 

Ok thanks.  That helps!  I can't remember if it was Linus who said it, but I remember I saw on a Youtube video someone saying that anyone can hear what you hear through open back headphones almost as well as you can hear them.

 

Presumably it would depend on the quality/type of headphone and the volume...

 

 

I think in situations like these it's smart to consider the worst case scenario in order to leave no questions.  If you keep in mind the loudest one, then you wouldn't even need to worry about the quieter ones, no?

[ShearMe]

You wont bother someone in another room no matter what headphones you're using.

[MrGoat]

It shouldn't cause too much of an issue, certainly if they are in another room. Its comparable to a cell phone speaker but more quiet than that. Certainly audible but not blaring or anything.

[Torg73]

Ok thanks.  That helps!  I can't remember if it was Linus who said it, but I remember I saw on a Youtube video someone saying that anyone can hear what you hear through open back headphones almost as well as you can hear them.

 

 

I think in situations like these it's smart to consider the worst case scenario in order to leave no questions.  If you keep in mind the loudest one, then you wouldn't even need to worry about the quieter ones, no?

That's a myth, what you hear if your standing right next to open headphones is a whisper or low rumble if its an explosion, if am out on the landing which is literally 2 or 3 steps behind me where am sitting at the computer you can't hear anything part from say the fan's going in side the case and that's quiet.

 

You will be fine and open headphones can be better all round as they let your ear's breathe compared to closed headphones but if you can please try out a few pairs before buying as a good pair is costly.

[Cookybiscuit]

I took the foam out of my 558's and you can hear them from miles away unfortunately.

[SickDuck]

They do get fairly loud, but the way I'd explain it is if you take the cups and just double them back to back for other people to hear. That's about as loud as they get for other people. But if you're talking about 'they're louder because they're not closed back' then it really does depend on the headphones themselves. For example comparing Sennheiser HD280 to my 595s the volume is essentially the same, BUT, the clarity is much better and more enhanced. So it's really a headphone-to-headphone thing. You're just gonna have to hear them to find out.

[BoredErica]

If your music is loud enough to bother somebody in the same room as you, let alone in another room, your ears will get hearing damage sooner or later.

[Heisenbleurgh]

Loud enough to hurt in quiet places, not loud enough to hear in loud places.

Unless you're blasting your music I've used open headphones at quiet offices and people would only hear if they came close.

[Lays]

You wont bother someone in another room no matter what headphones you're using.

 

 

You should be fine if they are in a seperate room and you are not listening to  ear bleeding levels. Also each headphone is different on how much it leaks. HE-500's are very leaky, DT 990's/AKG k612's are less.

 

 

If your music is loud enough to bother somebody in the same room as you, let alone in another room, your ears will get hearing damage sooner or later.

 

 

Worst case scenario:

 

[MrGoat]

Worst case scenario:

 

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Another reason to upgrade to LCD2's, never need to buy speakers then

[BoredErica]

Worst case scenario:

 

That's just dumb.

[ShearMe]

That's just dumb.

 

[Lays]

Another reason to upgrade to LCD2's, never need to buy speakers then

 

 

why not both?

 

I've had them on my head at that volume before, the bass literally pulls my ears back and forth inside the cups, but it's ear bleeding loud, can only do it for a few seconds on certain songs without much treble lol

 

#hearingdamage

[BoredErica]

[Lays]

 

 

bigger numbers r better

 

 

how much did you calc the output to be? 128db?

[BoredErica]

bigger numbers r better

 

 

how much did you calc the output to be? 128db?

Yea, I believe so. Possibly 130db with some clipping, but at that volume who cares?

[Lays]

Yea, I believe so.

 

many volume such wow

[creatip123]

Depending on the environment. Like our eyes, our ears could adapt to the environment very strongly. In quiet environment, our ears adapt, and we could hear things that we couldn't heard in less quiet evironment. I can never put an analog wall clock (unless it's a sweeping seconds clock) in my bedroom, because the ticking sound is driving me crazy. That's why there was this expression, 'things sound louder in the night than in the day'

 

In the night (when it's quieter), I can hear my HE400 sitting on my work desk playing songs, from the toilet, that's more than 10 meters away, with no furniture/walls between them though.