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Keep in mind that Apple sells around 100 million sets of AirPods per year: https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/05/airpods-pro-2-sales/ https://9to5mac.com/2022/12/05/ai

• Terretta 4y ago
  And all of them used with current iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS offer default volume limits and proactive notifications about excess decibels, set quite low, and iPhones themselves offer environmental volume warnings as well now. To get hearing damage generally requires disabling or raising levels on this feature not on offer from most players+headsets.
  • makk 4y ago
    Generally, sure. But some of us are raising the possibility that there's something else going on that isn't captured by the limits, notifications and warnings. I didn't mention it in my original post but I always used my AirPod Max with the hard cap decibel limit set to the minimum value, and even then I wouldn't have them turned all the way up.
• tim333 4y ago
  I have AirPods and get tinnitus which comes and goes. At max volume they sound good but will make my ears ring after. It's the same for any headphones / loud noise source really. The answer is to turn it down a bit. I'd be willing to bet its the sound level that's the main thing rather than the type of headphone. For me 80db is fine, 100db causes issues but I'm sure people vary.