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I remember reading that any volume head/earphone listening is bad for your ears if listening for a prolonged period of time, which is one of the primary reasons
by dkersten 7y ago
I remember reading that any volume head/earphone listening is bad for your ears if listening for a prolonged period of time, which is one of the primary reasons why I refuse to spend all day listening on headphones in open offices and instead just take a productivity hit (and work from home most of the time instead).
> don’t increase the volume to compensate
Anecdotally, the number of people whose music I can hear from meters away suggests that many people do increase the volume to compensate.
- leokennis 7y agoI use noise canceling headphones. My iPhone is on 10-15% volume, I hear my music and I don’t hear all the chatter. No way this hurts my hearing.
- dkersten 7y agoI believe the theory was that because the headphones/earbuds send energy directly into your ear canal (while external sounds bounce off more stuff and travel further), that it is more harmful (over prolonged periods of time). I don’t know how volume correlates with sound pressure, intensity and power, so I can’t comment on whether or not that’s true. Note that this was for prolonged (many hours) of listening, even at low volume. With that said, I googled and came up blank looking for these studies, so you could be right. Without the studies to back it up, what I wrote is kinda meaningless.