[j0k3r]

...in other news, Twinkies make you fat. Haven't we been hearing this since 1985 when we were all jamming on our Walkmans with the headphones turned up entirely too loud. I am sure something has already been said to the current generation about portable CD players.

Do they really think that because the media has changed that the listening habits of the users have?

With roughly 61 per cent of teens and 23 per cent of adults surveyed saying they have an iPod or MP3 player, the ubiquity of the devices is creating some potential dangers for users.

You know someone paid a lot of money for this study as well. Generally these types of studies cost tens of thousands of dollars. Why don't they point to one of the other 75 studies about elevated sound levels and hearing loss and say, "Oh by the way, the same thing applies to MP3 players."

And while blasting music into your ears at high decibel levels is certainly more likely to have a detrimental effect, according to the survey, adults were more likely to put themselves at risk by listening to the devices for longer periods of time. Roughly 43 per cent of adults said they listened to the their iPod or MP3 player between one and four hours a day or longer (9 per cent), compared to less than a third of those teens surveyed.

Source: globeandmall.com

Everyone wants to ride the iPod media train.

[ninefivezero]

Seriously...

The best advice I think is of course to just turn it down, but also to use good headphones that don't distort as much, as loud distortion is more damaging than loud clean music, and also to use noise blocking headphones, like canal phones, so you don't need to turn them up as loud to drown out enviromental noise.