[big_red]

Sorry but this theory is false, I’ll explain. Hearing loss is caused by genetics or a consequence of infection. It’s a part of aging no matter how loud the volume of your earphones. Just some people get it worse than others. I’ve been listening at max (100db+) volume, 5 hours a day, every day, since the mid 80’s. I did recently lose some hearing to an infection in my left ear. I’m not playing down the severity of hearing loss, you don’t know the value of what you have until you lose it. When hearing loss does happen, there’s no cure. I took steroid injections through the eardrum, and orally, and a handful of other drugs but there is no effective treatment.

The loss of happiness from not having music is just incalculable. But I would in a moment give up all my money and possessions to get back music.

Anyway, what they’re blaming on loud music is a consequence of genetics or infection.

[david_allison]

Anecdotally, I somewhat agree with you (infection is a major cause).

I've had tinnitus for most of my life. I still go to loud venues and although it's rare for me to not use earplugs, I'm still aware of the gradual damage I'm causing from this.

I had Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss (SSHL) recently and I'd liken it to an instant 50/60 years of hearing loss at my current level of deterioration.

I'm extremely lucky to have a doctor on the public health service who gave me an instant appointment prescribed the correct medication. I'd very likely would be near-deaf in one ear if I'd waited for private care.

[bearmode]

Sorry, you're incredibly wrong.

Go and talk to older musicians who always wore hearing protection, and then go and talk to musicians of the same age who never did. You'll see the effects very clearly.

[big_red]

I’m not wrong, I’ve listened to 100db+ for a good 35 years, 5 hours a day, every single day. So how is it I have near perfect hearing? Doesn’t that break your theory? No? because it’s not based on fact.

[retconn]

Recording engineer here of the same age as the OP: perceived (spectrum summed) volume and associated hearing loss is proportional to the level of distortion (not simple noise) in the signal. I get freaked by footsteps a hundred yards behind me on the sidewalk at night. Fix your mix levels for better hearing.

Edit: lift the noise floor in your print to mask undesirable signal path snr harmonics. This is the technique employed (very non exclusively in this example) by state of the art DACs such as in the CH 1.5 disc player.

[retconn]

Much of the apparent distortion in post 83 tracks is caused by the horizontal alignment of near field monitors beginning with the Yamaha NS-10 popularity. Realignment is a octagonal problem.

Edit: just try swivelling your earbuds 90 degrees..

[shawabawa3]

Are you seriously saying that loud noises can't cause hearing damage? Because they can and do and that's been proven

and it's happened to me and to millions of other people

[big_red]

no not really. I mean ok if you stare into the sun long enough you’ll go blind and if you pump 300db into your eardrums with an ambulance siren, yes it can do damage. But your eyes and ears don’t ‘wear out’. For the most part they’ll regenerate continually but for instances where the hairs have been destroyed from infection or where genetics break the regeneration process. The studies reenforce the hypothesis that noise and not age are responsible for hearing loss, in spite of the fact that it’s the older patients that have it worse. its a bias they have, finding the conclusion before the rigor of an objective test.

And this matters. Because if you have a limited window to enjoy your hearing, you shouldn’t be listening at 50db, you should turn it up and get the full immersive enjoyment while you are able.

[idontwantthis]

A lot of old drummers out there with a lot of ear infections, eh?

[theo1996]

ARe you trolling? read some biology and how the ear is structured.