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probably know how satisfying it feels to crank up the volume and get lost in your
favorite sounds whether you're a bass head a metal fan or just like hearing my
voice overwhelm your consciousness when you watch techwiki and you've probably
also heard the dire warnings about what loud noises can do to your hearing but
how loud is too loud i mean obviously nobody's going to listen to their
headphones so loudly that it causes physical pain
but could the volume be high enough to injure you without you even knowing it
so it turns out that long-term exposure to sounds above 85 decibels is enough to
put you at risk for permanent hearing damage roughly as loud as the blender
you're using to make your avocado drink or whatever you kids are
eating these days but okay how does this translate to headphones well because
headphones have different sensitivities or decibels per volt it's extremely
difficult to show an accurate reading on your phone or computer screen one way to
get a rough idea is to use a pad like this to seal the ear cup against a
quality decibel meter but most people don't own one of those and of course
that still doesn't address another fundamental problem whether you're
gaming kicking back to some tunes or watching latin soaps what you're
listening to is constantly changing in volume and as you keep listening your
ears naturally adjust to the sound levels meaning it's easy to keep turning
up the dial the longer your listening session gets so what can you do well one
of the best things is to use an equalizer you see the reason many people
turn their volume up to unhealthy levels is because there's some detail in the
music that they're struggling to hear maybe it's weak bass or vocals that are
getting drowned out by other instruments equalizers allow you to overcome this by
boosting only certain frequencies instead of turning up the volume across
the audible spectrum this allows you to hear the details you want to hear
without pummeling your eardrums and the best part is that equalizer
functionality is available for free in many devices and software products
another tip if you can try to get music from a better source your collection of
mp3s from the early to mid 2000s were probably encoded at a low bit rate while
higher quality files above 128 kilobits per second will allow you to hear subtle
details without putting your ears at risk another option is to consider
buying a pair of headphones conducive to the audio experience that you want
different headphones have different frequency responses which you can learn
more about up here simply put however some headphones
emphasize bass some mid-range and some
treble by doing some research and picking up a model that has a sound
signature that you like you won't find yourself reaching for the volume knob as
much to boost frequencies you'd have a hard time hearing on a different pair of
headphones and while you're at it consider something that will shut out
external noise to some degree in-ear monitors are a good choice for this and
headphones with active noise cancellation are even better but you
just have to have the money in the bank to actually be able to afford them but
regardless of what solution you do decide to go with remember that your
hearing is already deteriorating with age so why speed it up i know none of
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