Its so true as well :P I remember one person at my old college, they used to listen to there ipod on full blast on the bundled headphones and even we could hear it distorting across the class room. Just dont understand how they got any enjoyment out of it at all.
1) you can't turn the volume right down on some ipods
2) if you have sensitive hearing.
3) number 1 will affect your sensitive hearing because you can't turn the volume down 2 a comfortable level,what i mean here is the volume is still loud at the lowest setting,so after a while your hearing deteriorates because of it.
so whats going 2 happen 2 your music?your going 2 turn it up.
that's why people's hearing is getting damage,because of the volume problems on the ipods
if no-one believes in me?,try listen to music on different ipods and you will see for your self,what i mean by the volume,that's if you can still hear
and i don't blame the person who is listen to the music
i blame apple for not giving us more control,over the volume level
You come across a lot of people using bundled headphones at stupid volumes, and as BinnsY said, I have no idea how they enjoy listening to music like that. I've just tried out some bundled headphones at the kind of volumes people use them at, and it actually hurt my ears. Madness I tell you, Madness!
@jonathan - not sure what your on about, tried an iPod and it turns down to zero, tried my iPhone and it turns down to zero and listening to audio at ultra low volumes will no nothing anyhow - the point is that poor quality earphones FORCE people to listen to music far more loudly than they should.
Ultimately, I understand the cost cutting by the manufacturer: the product is the Zen/iPod/Walkman/iPhone NOT the earphones as they are trying to hit certain price points. BUT what is lacking is the education of people to KNOW better.
Quite frankly I have to restrain myself when I see generic iPod earphones in use (that's a LOT) and probably tell 20/30 people a year who I don't know about the idiocy of what they are doing!
I mean, can you imagine buying an iPhone, spending say £35pm on the contract and over £700 in total ownership over 18 months only to listen to music of the quality of a warped cassette...
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we should lead a campaign against bundled headphones. armed with a bazooka launching sennheiser cx300's into people's ears, we could change the listening habits of millions of people.
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Its not going deaf that's the problem (Sometimes I think it would be a blessing), its Tinnitus. The possibility of never having a quiet moment again or never being able to concentrate if you are in a quiet environment.
Just get a creative player, at IFA this year they had some amazing players and headphones on show with noise cancelling built in, if the EU wants to mandate something, as I am sure the article also suggested, they should mandate not that output power be limited, but that noise cancelling and sound isolation technologies and designs should be a requirement to getting your earphones and players on the market.
@Peter - agreed. It would allow the players to be sold for a slightly cheaper price and make a huge market for third parties which manufacturers are always trying to encourage 'Made for iPod' style...
THIS. IS. APPLE! WE(The one and truly Steve Jobs) DON'T GIVE TWO APPLES ABOUT IT.
Most of my friends use stock headphones and never get why I keep groaning when they whip out those white buds like they're the best thing since proper headphones.
I do have to drive my music up to higher than average levels - I suffer from moderate hearing loss. Not due to blasting music, though - my aural nerves aren't too good. The doctor suggests it might have been due to me falling on my head as a child - but that's another story for another day.
But most friends with hearing better than mine drive their music players to even higher volumes than mine, ceteris paribus, considering that I used to use a stock earphone prior to getting my IEM, and when I lent them my mp3 player (some rubbishly cheap China player {Tech idiot in the past, now enlightened.} I found my mp3's volume blasted to stupidly high levels. (The music player's volume ranged from 0~31, I listened to them at around ~15 with the stock earphones, ~5 with my IEM, and had it returned with the volume at 30. While it might have been just a prank, if they use their own MP3 players, I can hear their music even if I'm about 2 meters away from them.
Sometimes, I wonder how unfair it is for me to be stuck with the hearing loss.
But when you can't hear the difference between .FLAC and .MP3 it's just so really really sad... Though that might be because my .mp3's are all ripped at minimum 320kbps. The only slight difference my impaired ears could detect was a slight modicum of additional clarity.
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