Headphones

No way to say unless you tell us for on average how long and how often per session at listening at this volume level. Some quick and helpful questions...

Have you ever experienced any ringing in your ears afterwords? If yes, for how long?

Have you ever noticed that your perception of sound is different either hours later or a day or two later?

How often do you listen at these really high volume levels?

How long do you listen at these really high volume levels?

In my youth, I regularly listened to music at these volume levels, yet not every day and for at most only around 3 hours. I did this for three or four years. Now and and decades later I have no hearing issues.

How is this even estimated in the software? What are you listening to and on what?

Edit: I see just airpods. Passive isolation will lower the noise from the subway as well. The subway is very loud itself. Also airpods have a metal mesh that get full of earwax. You can use a very fine tooth brush from the brand Curaprox + Isopropyl alcohol to clean it out. They get extremely quiet as they fill up with wax. You might think they don't even work.

Definitely having hearing loss.

Don’t phones have a limiter for this? On iPhone you can go to headphone safety and change the limit for decibel

How did you get that statistic?

you're so fucked you can't even hear the demons in hell welcoming you bro..

Hello tinnitus my old friend.

Explain to me in clear terms, why the hell do you have it set that loud?

Depends on the headphone you use readings might be wrong my wf1000xm5 shows 74 on iphones own app and 65 on sonys app. But still even if it was 10db less its still a lot and long expousers to it would damage your ears.

I got experience with this ...

I always max out the volume and I know for a fact my ear drums are in good shape even as I get older because I can hear high pitched sounds even when basically nobody else can (you know those animal warning devices they put in garden etc)

However my brains sensitivity to sound is an entirely different thing, I always put the volume up when im watching media, for the immersion.

So like... If anything loud music is good for your ear drum health (within reason) imo... Like exercise... Exercise destroys your body if you go too hard too quick.

What is that tool that can measure that?

Just stop, why even ask?

What headphone?

Very

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWyjTcKE534

I’d tell you but you wouldn’t listen

these comments got me scared lmao im the same

Hey man welcome to the club. Years of having headsets and headphones (as well as blasting after market car stereos) cranked to over power background noise has now made it so I can't hear people talking if there's damn near any background noise. You'll get used to the constant ringing but constantly having to nod your head as if you understood what you were just told doesn't seem to feel any better as time goes on. I'd recommend getting some anc headphones and just overall listen to music quieter. You're hearing probably won't recover if you've done any serious amount of damage. Your ear hairs get permanently depressed and as more and more get flattened you lose fidelity and the ability to hear people speak.

The good news is you can train your ears a bit. My hearing is pretty bad but I can still sound whore in games really well and I can still appreciate really good headphones and speakers. Plus it's looking like hearing assistance technology is getting exponentially better. Who knows maybe in 10 or 15 years you'll be able to get some sort of surgery or ear implant that'll help bring it back. However don't bet on it and treat your ears better in the future.

Likely not as fucked as I am with Menieres disease, but please - unless you want to end up that way, I'd suggest you turn that down to say 85dB at most, because 92dB is too loud for any great length of time and you will eventually damage your hearing irreversibly (and unlike my case, medical steroids won't do anything to help you) and you will end up with dysacusis, distortion, recruitment, altered hearing, tinnitus (probably the worst outcome to be honest), and other issues such as aural fullness and otalgia.

Please turn the volume down. Save your hearing and thank me later. 92dB is way, way too loud.

Holy I’ve done it for 3 years oopsies

okay so its very possible that you werent listening at 92 dB. My previous airpods reported a volume of 110dB at the same volume my new ones report ~70dB. Im just saying it is possible for it not to be accurate, especially with older in-ears

#WHAT

my average is 45

Probably not giga fucked but buy some like etymotic iems so you won’t hear outside sound and crank that shit to like 70

How can i check this?

What app is this, I have Android

Aint this is just the standard noise level of a city?

Is it from headphones? Or environmental? If you taking subway everyday you can easily get 25d 92db exposure in a year.

Depends. Apple can’t accurately measure anything other than airpods. For example at 80db there is about 3-4 db difference between my airpods and my IE600. The 600 measures higher at the same spl i hear. Not a scientific test. Maybe it was not 92db. But if we take the measurements as accurate, go see a doctor.

Don't ask us, ask your audiologist or doctor.

I SAID ASK YOUR DOCTOR! NO, NOT DAUGHTER, DOCTOR! DOCTOR!! ;)

Just buy noise cancellation headphones

Time to go to the doctor and face your destiny

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Depends what headphones you were using, those numbers may not be accurate

Death in 2-3 days

Only you can hear that ringing noise

I thought the same. I used to always crank the volume up, especially when I was in the gym or car. Recently I went to the doc to get my hearing checked, because I couldn't understand what my girlfriend was saying sometimes.

Turns out it's normal I can't hear her when she is talking to me in the kitchen while she's sitting in the living room.

My hearing is all fine and dandy. I'm keeping the volume on a safe level now, nonetheless.

r/hearingaids

How does it know the sensitivity of the headphones?

My iPhone is constantly honking at me and I’m listening to bone conduction headphones with earplugs in…

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