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My favorite quote from the linked article, Table 1 Row 1: > Gaming was associated with poorer self-reported hearing. Use of hearing protection is uncommon (<5%

My favorite quote from the linked article, Table 1 Row 1: > Gaming was associated with poorer self-reported hearing. Use of hearing protection is uncommon (<5%) among gamers. The study quoted by the featured study is very reasonable in finding this given its context, but I think it's a little ridiculous the featured study suggested that gamers might use hearing protection as opposed to turning the sound down. In any case, this is interesting to see. I never turn my volume up past about 20% because it becomes physically painful at that point, but I thought maybe some people might have insensitive hardware that needs higher power to create reasonable audio? Are folks just leaving their volume on the default 50% or 100% or whatever it is?

snazz 3y ago
> but I thought maybe some people might have insensitive hardware that needs higher power to create reasonable audio? Are folks just leaving their volume on the default 50% or 100% or whatever it is? A few reasons I can think of: * Less sensitive headphones (as you mentioned). A lot of fancier headphones have much higher impedance and need more power to drive. * People playing competitive games want to be able to hear quiet and farther away sounds like footsteps approaching. Then sounds like gunshots are dangerously loud. * Earbuds that seal poorly (think the original AirPods as opposed to the Pro version) make you turn up the volume in order to hear any bass (or shove them deeper into your ear canal if you want to listen at a more reasonable volume, which is also uncomfortable).