Hearing Information

ross r asked:


Please answer in units instead of giving a comparison. Also, if you could explain what those units mean, that’d be great. (Decibel, sone, mel, phon, hertz? I don’t get any of them.)
I guess I really mean “tone”, not volume

Tyler a.k.a mr.yummy asked:


How does the type of music affect ur hearing at the same volume?
Rock has lots of bass but classical is a smooth flow kind of thig.
is it the volume or the type of music that affects hearing?

singlewhitemalekc70 asked:


My question has to do with different frequencies of noise. Its pretty common knowledge that hearing loss occurs from exposure to excessively loud noise levels over extended periods of time. But do different frequencies of noises target different areas of hearing loss depending on the frequency of the noise exposure? In other words, is it possible that an electric guitarist who played his guitar at extremely high frequency noise levels could damage his hearing in that frequency range but have no hearing loss of really low frequency noises and vice versa? And to take this to an extreme, has this ever been scientifically tested? Exposing a mouse to a single frequency noise for prolonged periods of time which would guarantee hearing loss at that frequency but leave all other ranges of the mouses hearing in tact?