Does environmental noise count in hearing loss on headphones?
alighieri00 asked:
Ok, that sounded odd. Basically, if I walk down the street listening to my headphones, I have to turn them up louder to hear the music, thanks to cars and trucks passing by. Does this have the same detrimental effect on my hearing that turning the music louder would if I were in a quiet room, like a library?
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Ok, that sounded odd. Basically, if I walk down the street listening to my headphones, I have to turn them up louder to hear the music, thanks to cars and trucks passing by. Does this have the same detrimental effect on my hearing that turning the music louder would if I were in a quiet room, like a library?
March 13th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Hi there:
Sound is sound. Your ears don’t differentiate between the sounds coming from your headphones and the outside environment. Therefore, if you turn your headphones up louder so you can hear over loud traffic noise, you are adding to the total noise your ears are hearing–and this can be damaging to your hearing.
Therefore, always keep the sound level down to below 80 dB., the current standard below which you do not damage your hearing no matter how long you are exposed to it.