Mike Temporale
09-14-2005, 03:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/12/D8CJ24E83.html' target='_blank'>http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/12/D8CJ24E83.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the ears _ including cell phones _ is contributing to hearing loss in younger people. "It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past," says Robert Novak, director of clinical education in audiology at Purdue University in Indiana. "It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience, as opposed to just when you're jogging." Increasingly, Novak says he's seeing too many young people with "older ears on younger bodies" _ a trend that's been building since the portable Walkman made its debut a few decades back."</i><br /><br />I don't use headphones in the same manner that I did when I was younger. The days of <i>"it just has to be loud to be good"</i> are past for me, and my ears are thankful of that. However, I see a fair number of people with the music cranked so loud that I can clearly hear the song they are listening to 10 feet away. 8O I wouldn't expect that to be good for your ears, and according to this survey, it isn't. Does anyone here listen at those volumes?