What is more ear-damaging?

[imported_Neeraj]

Say I got some powerful headphones that can produce very good treble with tremendous bass. What will damage the ear more if the volume was quite loud?

• Music with lots of deep bass and less treble
• Music with lots of treble and less bass

 

[EyeMNathan]

Doesn't matter. High decibel levels over a prolonged period are damaging regardless.

 

[scorpmatt]

female pop stars

 

[Heisenberg]

Since the intensity of a sound wave depends on its amplitude, I'd guess that it's the same both ways. However, the ear has a frequency response curve that may make it more sensitive in certain areas, so you'd have to account for that.

 

[brigden]

Country music will damage your hearing regardless of volume.

 

[fire400]

Used wisely, your new sound equipment will provide a lifetime of fun and enjoyment. Since hearing damage from loud noise is often undetectable until it is too late, the manufacturer and CEA recommend you avoid prolonged exposure to excessive noise.

The following list of sound levels is included for your protection.

Decibel Level Examples:

30: Quite library, soft whispers

40: Living room, refrigerator, bedroom away from traffic

50: Light traffic, normal conversation, quite office

60: Air conditioner at 20 feet, sewing machine

70: Vacuum cleaner, hair dryer, noisy restaurant

80: Average city traffic, garbage disposals, alarm clock at two feet

THE FOLLOWING NOISES CAN BE DANGEROUS UNDER CONSTANT EXPOSURE:

90: Subway, motorcycle, truck traffic, lawn mower

100: Garbage truck, chain saw, pneumatic drill

120: Rock band concert in front of speakers, thunderclap

140: Gunshot blast, jet plane

180: Rocket launching pad

(Consumer Electronics Association [CEA] www.CE.org)
2500 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201

 

[BladeVenom]

Dead threads are coming back to life. It's a sign the zombie apocalypse is near.

 

[Zeze]

 

[Ben90]

Low frequencies are not as damaging to the ear as high frequencies. A person could live their entire life listening to a 194dB noise at .0001Hz and never notice anything.

 

[RavenSEAL]

I blast 115dBs from my Sennheisers into my ears for hours when I'm pist, can't wait to be deaf! LOL!

 

[vi edit]

I blast 115dBs from my Sennheisers into my ears for hours when I'm pist, can't wait to be deaf! LOL!

You'll get a nice crispy case of tinnitus long before you go deaf.

 

[KLin]

Fucking AWESOME!!! :awe:

 

[BoomerD]

I blast 115dBs from my Sennheisers into my ears for hours when I'm pist, can't wait to be deaf! LOL!

Posting in a necro-thread...worry less about the decibel level and more about the quality of music.

Loud music will damage your hearing...shitty music, especially rap and hip-hop will damage your brain.

 

[highland145]

Posting in a necro-thread...worry less about the decibel level and more about the quality of music.

Loud music will damage your hearing...shitty music, especially rap and hip-hop will damage your brain.

QFT

People are going to be suing ear bud manufacturers in the future.



Edit: Almost done.

 

[Wyndru]

Wow this thread is old. I was about to quote a banned member lol.

I have permanent ear damage from listening to music too loud when I was younger. I basically have a ringing in my ears that will never go away. It's not too noticeable anymore, but if I'm in a quiet room I can definitely still hear it.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I have a constant ringing in my ears but I have difficulty determining the source.

Read an article that high blood pressure can cause the ringing.

But I didn't really notice it until I was going to concerts last year.

After my eardrum ruptured I began using earplugs when going to concerts.
I highly value my hearing & would like to be able to hear as much great music that life has to offer as much as possible.

 

[rudeguy]

I miss brigden

 

[ShawnD1]

Since the intensity of a sound wave depends on its amplitude, I'd guess that it's the same both ways. However, the ear has a frequency response curve that may make it more sensitive in certain areas, so you'd have to account for that.

I always assumed high frequency audible sound was the most damaging because it seems the most painful. I'm guessing that pain is useful feedback.

 

[Meghan54]

I always assumed high frequency audible sound was the most damaging because it seems the most painful. I'm guessing that pain is useful feedback.

Actually, pulling recollections of what I found out when I instituted a hearing conservation program for a combat engineer battalion while I was in the Army, the problem isn't high or low frequency sound, rather the decibel level, as already discussed, and whether the sound is impulse or steady state.


Impulse, like rifle shots or cannon shots. Steady state, like rock music....sound that's pretty much constant.


The ear's cilia, the "hairs" in the semi-circular canals in the inner ear, can protect themselves much more readily from steady state noise, like during a rock concert vs. exposure to the same dB levels of impulse noise, like gun fire.


This is because with steady state noise, the cilia can and do "lay down" during the exposure, which gives the ringing noise in the ears afterward as they slowly resume their vertical standing position.


But with impulse noise, there's no way the cilia can anticipate a one-time shock of high energy noise, therefore they're "unprotected" and absorb the full impact of the noise's energy.


Now, if you're shooting a rifle, for instance, and it's a semi-auto and you're shooting hundreds of rounds, then this progresses into steady state noise and the cilia will "lay down"....but with single shots, nope.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Actually, pulling recollections of what I found out when I instituted a hearing conservation program for a combat engineer battalion while I was in the Army, the problem isn't high or low frequency sound, rather the decibel level, as already discussed, and whether the sound is impulse or steady state.


Impulse, like rifle shots or cannon shots. Steady state, like rock music....sound that's pretty much constant.


The ear's cilia, the "hairs" in the semi-circular canals in the inner ear, can protect themselves much more readily from steady state noise, like during a rock concert vs. exposure to the same dB levels of impulse noise, like gun fire.


This is because with steady state noise, the cilia can and do "lay down" during the exposure, which gives the ringing noise in the ears afterward as they slowly resume their vertical standing position.


But with impulse noise, there's no way the cilia can anticipate a one-time shock of high energy noise, therefore they're "unprotected" and absorb the full impact of the noise's energy.


Now, if you're shooting a rifle, for instance, and it's a semi-auto and you're shooting hundreds of rounds, then this progresses into steady state noise and the cilia will "lay down"....but with single shots, nope.

My cilia lay down on command.

 

[SandEagle]

nagging fat women