Tinnitus? Yes, if you listen to very loud music a lot ~~for years and years~~. Deaf? No.
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Trust me, you can get tinnitus from listening to very loud music just the once. I've had it since I stood next to a speaker during a concert. Why the speaker was so low down is beyond me. Wasn't able to hear anything for a couple of hours and I've been hearing gas boiler noises ever since.
People made fun of me for using foam ear plugs at a concert, and the occasional gun range idiot who throw various insults my way. Then I shoot my 7.5 inch ar and they either leave or get their own ear pro. Fucking chuds also I'm sorry you gotta deal with it. I've had a few episodes of it, but it's nice not having it be a constant struggle. So I'm sorry you gotta deal with that. I also had a handful of "exploding head syndrome" moments and I honestly didn't know which is worse.
Oooh, they're fun (not), especially when they happen in the middle of the night.
They seem to only happen when I'm right on the cusp of sleep!
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Headphones vs speakers is way less significant than listening volume. The big thing to be careful of is listening with just one earbud in. When we do this we almost always end up turning the volume in that one too high, because you need on average 6db more volume to compensate for the audio input of the other ear.
If you have to use headphones, use soundcancelling like AirPods Pro or whatever else that has noise-canxelling and set your phone to use headphone safety where it reduces the maximum volume to as much as it can
Be reasonable
Some songs are best loud, but slide them slightly off your ears when you get to those
Have fun
All I get is ears full of earwax.
Mom's sorta right, but also not.. If you blast the headphones, yeah, of course it'll eventually screw your hearing. If you leave them at a level, where you're able to hear the outside world around you, you'l be fine.
If you leave them at a level, where you’re able to hear the outside world around you
Noise cancelling, you can have it at half-volume and it already covers up all the external noise.
I think they still don't know what noise cancelling headphone are, or the fact that noise-cancelling is even a thing, and assume the music must be too loud
Remember: noise cancelling works by playing the inverse waveform to cancel out the external one. That’s still pressure waves in your ear; they’re just no longer registering as sound.
There have been plenty of studies in this area; to minimize the risk of hearing loss, keep the headphone audio between 60 and 85 dB (remember: it’s a logarithmic scale)
Anything from 70dB down should be safe; you want to listen to 70-80dB a maximum of 40 hours a week, and 80-85 a maximum of 8 hours a day.
It doesn’t matter where the sound is coming from; those are just the guidelines for sound waves in your ear canal. Headphones can actually muffle external sounds louder than 85 dB, protecting your hearing.
Most phones have a setting somewhere to prevent the headphones from emitting sound over 85dB; this is required to be the default by law in the EU.
Ask yourself:
Do you like to hear loud music? At all?
If yes, then you are in danger. Then you need to be careful all the time, and even more so with headphones, because the feeling of loudness is disturbed a little with headphones.
Otherwise, forget it all.
~~I'll teach you a trick: if something really is as bad as someone says then why does everyone do it? I would say like the majority of young people on public transportation are using earbuds for their daily commute and they're obviously not deaf~~
~~Anyways I've played guitar and used earbuds since like 12 and my ears are certainly not in a good place.~~
~~Listen to music at comfortable levels and don't max it out even if it feels like you want to.~~
~~I'm far from deaf though.~~
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