Ultrasonic volume - the definitive answer

[jbdefence]

Thank you CatMan and Shannon.
Installed the app and...oh my, I have been playing it too loud like 9 months...but fortunately not ridiculously too loud. I can´t remember exactly how loud I played it because at some point I lowered the volume but now that I measured it I know it was around -20db back then when loudest...so way too loud. I remember that I calibrated it with ocean waves, but still it has been too loud.
I started to develop not only headache but my ears started to hurt too and recently they were in pain since I upped the volume a bit for coupled days from the lowest point cos I thought I had been calibrating it TOO low.

Now I have calibrated it to frequensee for displaying around -40db and I see for a couple of days how it goes. The difficulty is that it seems that my speakers shoots the sound right up to the sealing direction, and if I move the app even slightly away from the speakers towards my hearing direction it drops to almost nothingness (where as if I pull the app away from speaker to the direction of sealing the volume pretty still drops pretty fast but not nearly as fast).

Will the -40db be enough considering the fact that my speakers directs it totally different direction than where my ears are? Tho,since I do research and work on my laptop pretty much 8hours/day I am most of the time physically very close to speakers.

Having that said, I think that I am quite sensitive to ultrasonic sound and I might need to still lower the volume since even with -40db right now I am feeling slight discomfort in my ears.

On another note, I know it has been discussed somewhere but can´t find the thread...is the ultrasonic more "powerful" than masked sounds? I am listening my subs around 18h-20h/day. Around 10h while sleeping (played from my laptop on the (foot)end of my bed so botch ears gets even volume) and another 8-10h on my laptop while working (ultarasonic). So far I have been listening ocean surfs while sleeping , but recently switched to trickling witch is somewhat more pleasant since the highest peaks are not that loud. Is it ok to switch my masked sleeping track from ocean to trickling, or even switch it to ultrasonic, in the middle of the 6 stage program?

I have the ultra sonic playing next to my bed with both speakers next to each other as the cables wont go far enough to be on either side, at the source it is around -32db at it highest point and at my pillow measured it and it is around -70db to 80-db, I can still hear a slight high pitch noise but i have to realy focus on trying to hear it.

Your ears maybe still sensitive from having it playing to loud before, give it a couple of weeks at this lower volume and it should stop hurting your ears once they have had time to heal a bit.