{"id":167,"date":"2005-12-20T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=167"},"modified":"2005-12-20T11:15:47","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T11:15:47","slug":"ipod-use-may-damage-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"iPod use may damage hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the warnings during the 80s about listenting to loud music on the original sony walkman. I paid the warning little heed and whether it was that or the booming base in nightclubs that damaged my hearing I don&#8217;t know. Either way, I have less than fantastic audio acuity which is embarassing in several social situations. Anyway, The Reg leads with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2005\/12\/20\/electric_earbuds\/\">this article<\/a> which points out that in-the-ear phones can amplify sound by a factor of around 8 times. (yes, I&#8217;m converting from dB here so no silly comments) The artilce acutally proposes some safe listening habits suggested by Dean Garstecki, A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communication.northwestern.edu\/audiology\/\">North Waestern University<\/a> audiologist.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>So what can we do? One solution Garstecki suggests is the 60 percent\/60 minute rule, whereby people use their MP3 devices for no more than about an hour a day and at levels below 60 percent of maximum volume. &#8220;If music listeners are willing to turn the volume down further still and use different headphones, they can increase the amount of time that they can safely listen,&#8221; Garstecki added. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>. This is good practice and I&#8217;d urge any reader to take this on board. Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve a state of the art Pioneer in-car headunit with an iPod adapter bus so my iPod booms away in my ears even without the phones. Some people never learn \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember the warnings during the 80s about listenting to loud music on the original sony walkman. I paid the warning little heed and whether it was that or the booming base in nightclubs that damaged my hearing I don&#8217;t know. Either way, I have less than fantastic audio acuity which is embarassing in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}