Guess what? Loud music makes you deaf!
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Researchers in the US have concluded that listening to loud music for prolonged periods of time will lead to hearing loss. Well shit in my open palm and force-feed me blue M&Ms, I did not know that.
The increased use of digital devices, though, means that listeners are now able to experience loud music in their ears that's even louder than it was before. Hence this research. It's not totally pointless, honest. A study of 100 medical students resulted in the verdict that playing music on a portable digital device at over 80% of its volume capacity - what those conducting this test considered 'loud' - for up to and over 90 minutes every day was bad.
Occasional listening at such levels was deemed okay, but it's repeat offenders that are the concern. The author of the published study, Brian Fligor, spoke to Reuters:
"If a person exceeds that on one particular day and happens not to use their headphones for the rest of the week, they're at no higher risk. I'm talking about someone who's exceeding 80 percent for 90 minutes day after day, month after month, for years.
"I worry about the teenager who's going to be 23, 24, 25 years old and has a measurable noise-induced hearing loss and now has another 60-something years to live with his hearing which is only going to get worse."
Listening to your MP3 player at 100% of its volume can damage your hearing in just five minutes. There appears to be no difference between brands of players in terms of affect on the listener's hearing.
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"State the pissing obvious day" today?
I thought
Ipods had a volume limiter so you couldn't have it up too loud. I guess I'm wrong.
...
They do. You can unlock it - it gets very very loud.
not in the US
In Europe they do - I can't remember what the limit is but it's around 100 dB SPL. In the States the maximum volume is much higher.
there's also this
Some other related research:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10328-volume-risks-of-mp3-players-sounded-out.html
Unfortunately these are only preliminary data so it's difficult to see what the studies are really getting at.
DURRRRR
these researchers are rubbish.
Its true though, loud music makes you deaf. I now have a constant ringing and hissing in both ears from prolonged deftones listening.
And that aint fun to have
this is why
I gave up taking my Ipod on the tube. I always had to have it at about 90% of the full volume. Maybe I should just get decent earphones that poke into your ear.
Tinitus?
thats nasty
Loud music makes you deaf.....
no shit Sherlock. I'd love to be one of those scientists who get massive grants for doing sweet fuck all, how much milk does it take before your cornflakes go soggy, why does toast always land butter side down etc?
Accidents
So how long before headphones come with health warnings?
On a more sensible note I'm now thinking of not listening to music whilst walking around anymore. To many near misses being hit by cars I didn't hear. Are there any documented ipod related road deaths or am I being stupididly paranoid?
Or maybe I should learn how to cross the road.
try playing drums in a metal band
now thats ear damage.
Kinda got used to it though, loud gigs through shit PA's probably do more damage to my ears these days
Premature deafness caused by loud music
is god's way of telling you your band should have fucking quit already. Isn't that right Pete Townsend?
Seriously though no shit sherlock.
Townsend
damaged his hearing in the late 60's before he'd recorded his best work.
Townsend also reckons that
he damaged his ears through listening to headphones in the recording studio rather than playing live.
In the interests of balance I should also say that he believes downloading kiddy porn is 'research'.
roger
daltrey can't use a phone.
nothing to do with his hearing, he's just a fucking spastic. punches the keys. smashes himself in the head with the receiver. that sort of thing.
'shit in my open palm and force feed me blue M&Ms'
best line ever.
they already do
My iPod Nano has health warnings on the back in French and German - presumably required by law - but not in English.
I guess I'm not the only one
who's just hoping they'll have some amazing new science to grow you new ears by the time I'm 30.
that
sounds fucking hilarious
But
listening to lightning bolt over 80% and at 100% is so damn good i couldn't care less if it meant my ears would actually drop off.
i bet they watched...
"its all gone pete tong". great research, guys.
I have an American Ipod...
...and it does have a sound limiter, it is a 3rd gen though so it may have changed.
Sorry, sonny
you'll have to speak up.
Did you know
that if someone shits in your palm and then you eat it, that's not very good for you either.
Probably won't damage your hearing, mind.
Well, Transistor Transistor said it best:
"By the time I'm 30 hope I'm deaf if not dead."
what???
.
sorry
that was bad.
I thought...
... he also traced his hearing loss to the time Keith Moon packed a drumkit with too many explosives and the whole thing detonated at an unexpectedly loud volume.
that's different
The sound limiter is for "parental control". But the absolute maximum that European iPods go to is less than that for US iPods, if I remember correctly.
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