I think the problem here is that people don't know what is an acceptable volume level. It seems that the general consensus among younger people is if your wearing headphones, you should hear the music and the music only.. So they crank it up, but when your using those little earbuds, which put the speaker about 2cm (or less) from your eardrum and crank it up to >110db, of course its gonna be damaging to your hearing. Since their so small, your gonna hear more of the ambient noise around you, so to drain it out, they crank up the volume.
I've been listening to music at work for about 2 years now, for 8 hours a day, and I've had no hearing problems whatsoever. I think it also helps to get those little fuzzy covers for the earbuds.
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I think the problem here is that people don't know what is an acceptable volume level. It seems that the general consensus among younger people is if your wearing headphones, you should hear the music and the music only.. So they crank it up, but when your using those little earbuds, which put the speaker about 2cm (or less) from your eardrum and crank it up to >110db, of course its gonna be damaging to your hearing. Since their so small, your gonna hear more of the ambient noise around you, so to drain it out, they crank up the volume. I've been listening to music at work for about 2 years now, for 8 hours a day, and I've had no hearing problems whatsoever. I think it also helps to get those little fuzzy covers for the earbuds. -circut