Is the iPod Generation Going Deaf?

prozac79 writes "Ars Technica and Wired News are both running interesting articles on how personal music players are a major contributor [ArsTechnica] to early hearing loss [Wired]. According the ArsTechnica article, an increasing number of people are now living in "noisy" environments that is only made worse by blocking it out with even louder music. The article also suggests that listening to music for one hour a day is considered safe. So now you have a choice... go deaf early or go insane listening to your coworkers chatter."

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Noise Cancelling Headphones

[zippthorne]

The technology has been around quite a while. so long in fact that I have a pair from Circuit City that cost around $14 that blocks the low frequency stuff quite well. (so amazingly well on airplanes that I use them even when not listening to anything just to take a nap.)

It's just speakers, an inverting op-amp, and microphones. None of those components are very expensive or complicated, so what's with the bose pricing.

for that matter, what's with bose pricing on any of its equipment. It's still just cheap speakers in a plastic case no matter how you dress it up.