09-14-2005, 01:09 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 12
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Personally, I think that earbuds (and I mean serious earbuds that are noise isolating - in-ear canalphones) are a much better choice than open-air cans, especially if you're going to be in areas with lots of ambient noise.
With in-ear phones that isolate you from outside noise you don't have to crank the volume to unsafe levels just to hear the music clearly and enjoy it. With non isolating phones (earbuds or cans), you may well find yourself winding that volume up without even noticing it and thus doing more damage to your ears.
Hearing loss is fairly well understood, I'd say... it's a matter of volume and the time of exposure. Very high volumes can do damage quickly and moderately high volumes will also do damage but much more slowly. High frequencies do more damage than bass, for bass sounds to do damage you need to go much higher in volume.
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