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sound-damaged ears.

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Wheatmaster

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i just realized to day that soo many people are abusing their ears nowadays. blasting the music to the max and "feel" with it. I think it's going to be an epidemic pretty soon. everyone will have bad hearing if we don't do anything about regulating sound potentials (or something like that)
 
Wow. Laws on how loud you can listen to music in your own home, not bothering anybody else? If we want people to not hurt themselves, enforce drug laws.
 
Yeah. I see all these doofuses walking around with their frickin headphones around their NECK, blasting it. And then I see people walking around and I can hear the music just as loud from the same distance away, but they're pumping it straight into their ears. wtf.
 
Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Wow. Laws on how loud you can listen to music in your own home, not bothering anybody else? If we want people to not hurt themselves, enforce drug laws.
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Depending on distance & volume, in many houses - and especially apartments - it certainly does bother other people. The kids down the street from me literally have screaming contests on a nightly basis, generally no earlier than 11pm, and that's just kids being what they are - obnoxious demonspawn. Loud, booming bass is 10x worse.
 
Originally posted by: Gurck
Originally posted by: PhasmatisNox
Wow. Laws on how loud you can listen to music in your own home, not bothering anybody else? If we want people to not hurt themselves, enforce drug laws.
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Depending on distance & volume, in many houses - and especially apartments - it certainly does bother other people. The kids down the street from me literally have screaming contests on a nightly basis, generally no earlier than 11pm, and that's just kids being what they are - obnoxious demonspawn. Loud, booming bass is 10x worse.
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I wasn't saying thatt loud music doesn't bother people sometimes, it does often. My point was that regulation how loud you listen to music that is affecting only yourself is absolutely nuts.
 
Here's a question. If you go to a loud concert (say for example Yngwie at a small venue) and you are half deaf for 2 days, does that permanently damage your hearing? My one buddy tried to tell me that it's the little hairs in your ear that broke and those particular ones will never grow back.
 
Originally posted by: Staley8
Here's a question. If you go to a loud concert (say for example Yngwie at a small venue) and you are half deaf for 2 days, does that permanently damage your hearing? My one buddy tried to tell me that it's the little hairs in your ear that broke and those particular ones will never grow back.
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your buddy is right. you do regain some of the short-term loss, cause that's just numbness, but anytime you've pummeled your ears that bad you've sustained some permanant loss as well. earplugs are your friends. i carry a pair with me at all times.

but laws against volume? hell no.
 
Originally posted by: Staley8
Here's a question. If you go to a loud concert (say for example Yngwie at a small venue) and you are half deaf for 2 days, does that permanently damage your hearing? My one buddy tried to tell me that it's the little hairs in your ear that broke and those particular ones will never grow back.
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My mom lost part of her hearing in one ear that way. Went to a jazz concert at a bar and sat at an angle so that only one ear was facing the stage. She was down about 50% compared to her other ear when they examined her a few days later, with treatment she's back to 80% but still has trouble hearing the high range.
 
well instead of laws, maybe more technology that helps you limit your loss. i know on some sony cd players, they have a standard hearing setting or something like that, that you can turn on.
 
People have been craning music for decades, and it does lead to some damage. I try not to make mine too loud, but I can't help it sometimes. It's just got to be turned up!
 
Any more laws and the citizens of communist China will have more freedoms than we do.
 
There is talk amongst Pro Sound providers of SPL limits being enforced with fines to the owner /operators of sound systems coming into effect in the UK. I presume it will be but a matter of time until there are limits placed on Maximum SPL levels in civic venues here in the US. Cities will have to limit exposure to litigation from some idiot who sticks his head in a speaker cabinet.
Already there are venues which monitor and regulate the max SPL one can achieve./
 
Originally posted by: Amorphus
Yeah. I see all these doofuses walking around with their frickin headphones around their NECK, blasting it. And then I see people walking around and I can hear the music just as loud from the same distance away, but they're pumping it straight into their ears. wtf.
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A lot of that depends on the type of headphones, if they're open you will hear it very clearly in the room at even low volume levels.

Viper GTS
 
My cousin's husband does have hearing loss caused by his auto stereo. He readily admits this and warns others. To this day he has a hard time understanding his own kids when they speak to him. Has to crank the TV loud in order to hear it clearly. Smart guy too, you'd think he would have known better.

I don't give a flying fvck what people do to their own health, but I certainly don't want to be annoyed by their BS noise. I'm all for noise ordinances, the stricter, the better! :|
 
Bah. Ordinance, shmordinance. Whatever happened to talking to your neighbors? And if they are unwilling to cooperate, then perhaps apply a different sort of ordnance.
 
My neighbors aren't the fvcktards driving down the street blasting some cRap for the sake of being annoying. Our city does have an ordinance about this and enforces it. Dumb asses should have to be told in the first place! :|
 
Originally posted by: edro13
I have Tinnitus... it sucks.
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So do I and yes, it sucks. I got mine from years of bars and loud music, and for that I blame nobody but myself. But our country just doesn't need more laws of this type. I'd rather have some ringing in my ears than not have the right to listen to music the way I want.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
People have been craning music for decades, and it does lead to some damage. I try not to make mine too loud, but I can't help it sometimes. It's just got to be turned up!
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Pictures Skoorb driving around in his Maxima cranking 'Dancing Queen-ABBA' on the radio! 😀
 
What people do to themselves is their business. If it doesn't harm other people then why bother making a law that's just going to be broken anyway?
 
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