Stop. Don't turn up the volume and beware of concerts. Loud music can damage your ears. So I can only listen at low volume to be safe?
Yes....but at least it's fun while it lasts.
Everything in excess damages the body. You get to decide how much and how fast it happens.
Everything in excess damages the body. You get to decide how much and how fast it happens.
Back in the day all rock concerts were deafening.
My first "real " speakers were 15" three-ways, 95 dB/watt with Electro-Voice drivers. They could deafen you from next door. They literally made furniture dance across the floor.
My first "real " speakers were 15" three-ways, 95 dB/watt with Electro-Voice drivers. They could deafen you from next door. They literally made furniture dance across the floor.
I know concerts and audio at home were contributors but the primary reason I now wear hearing aids was a year spent working in a large GM manufacturing plant in the early-70s. There was a massive heavy stamping operation in the middle of the plant that made full size truck control arms at rates of tens of thousands of parts per day, with many enormous transfer presses much bigger than a house doing 10 or so hits per part. Standing right next to someone and shouting at the top of your lungs produced about 20% comprehension. I was a teenage punk and nobody wore hearing protection then. Now I have a ~50dB loss across the frequency spectrum and manage pretty well with Resound GN aids. There is a silver lining...I can and do sleep through thunderstorms and howling winds blissfully. Take care of those ears youngsters!
I had quite noticeable tinnitus until I began using hearing aids about 12 years ago, after which it gradually became much less intrusive, I can still hear it at night with my aids out but not at a distracting level. My theory is that among other causes, tinnitus can result when your ears start to fade and your brain jacks up the system gain trying to compensate without much improvement., raising the noise floor.
I went to see Status Quo in 1976 at the Glasgow Apollo theatre.
Never heard anything so loud in all my life.
I had to stand behind a concrete pillar to reduce the volume a little.
But still couldn't hear for 3 days afterwards !
In more recent years there was a newspaper article saying the band had their hearing checked and they were all fine !
Could be all that long hair blocked the sound a bit ?
Never heard anything so loud in all my life.
I had to stand behind a concrete pillar to reduce the volume a little.
But still couldn't hear for 3 days afterwards !
In more recent years there was a newspaper article saying the band had their hearing checked and they were all fine !
Could be all that long hair blocked the sound a bit ?
I worked for about a year at an Amazon FC. I was known as "headphones guy" because I tended to wear a closed noise cancelling set. My cell phone is still set to "cricket" as that was the only sound I could hear when it rang in there. We had two-way radios too that I arranged into the headphones. It all sorta worked to lessen the sound exposure some.
Also played in a band during my late 20's. After a couple of rehearsals I realized there was no way I could keep doing that, with amps and drums in the same room. So I cooked up a studio model where we all used headsets, everything went direct through a mixer - and the drums got miked behind a wall with a window. Everyone agreed it was so-much-better, including the neighbors!
Also played in a band during my late 20's. After a couple of rehearsals I realized there was no way I could keep doing that, with amps and drums in the same room. So I cooked up a studio model where we all used headsets, everything went direct through a mixer - and the drums got miked behind a wall with a window. Everyone agreed it was so-much-better, including the neighbors!
I got tinnitus when someone played a house record after a reggae concert in the 1990's. There was one tone in the record that caused a beep in my ears that never quite went away, although the sound did change over the years. Originally it was a beep, but later it became more like narrowband noise. It's a minor case of tinnitus, I only hear it in quiet surroundings. It is worse when I'm tired than when I'm not. Since then I always have earplugs with me that I put in when sounds are too loud - I wish I had started doing that before going to that 1990's concert.
It's the Stones that started it for me in 1980. Mick's voice has those predominant mids that are really fatiguing. I knew he would be my nemesis. 🤔