I'm depressed and I wanna listen to music... 🥲

Its just fearmongering right?

I don't max the volume, just turn it high enough to hear it, if I used speakers, I'd also turn it so that my ears detect the "same volume" so I don't get why headphones is worse? Literally the same volume.

Also privacy, I don't want others to know what I'm listening, the fuck lol.

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Mom's sorta right, but also not.. If you blast the headphones, yeah, of course it'll eventually screw your hearing. If you leave them at a level, where you're able to hear the outside world around you, you'l be fine.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    If you leave them at a level, where you’re able to hear the outside world around you

    Noise cancelling, you can have it at half-volume and it already covers up all the external noise.

    I think they still don't know what noise cancelling headphone are, or the fact that noise-cancelling is even a thing, and assume the music must be too loud

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Remember: noise cancelling works by playing the inverse waveform to cancel out the external one. That’s still pressure waves in your ear; they’re just no longer registering as sound.

    There have been plenty of studies in this area; to minimize the risk of hearing loss, keep the headphone audio between 60 and 85 dB (remember: it’s a logarithmic scale)

    Anything from 70dB down should be safe; you want to listen to 70-80dB a maximum of 40 hours a week, and 80-85 a maximum of 8 hours a day.

    It doesn’t matter where the sound is coming from; those are just the guidelines for sound waves in your ear canal. Headphones can actually muffle external sounds louder than 85 dB, protecting your hearing.

    Most phones have a setting somewhere to prevent the headphones from emitting sound over 85dB; this is required to be the default by law in the EU.

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