Make Ears Buzzing iPods
Saturday, 17. April 2010
Music as a morale booster, music makes life alive, but what if the music makes your ears ringing? Of course, not the music that makes buzz ears, but the behavior that play music that makes listeners so there is no clearer.
Researchers in Australia found that about one quarter of iPod users have a hearing loss. iPod mania or other users of portable music players are often at increased risk of tinnitus (tinnitus) or other hearing problems, this trend most prevalent in the iPod mode plays the outrageous volume of their iPod.
National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney has asked to listen to music with a volume comparable to motors powered device (ie: drilling machine). The researchers estimated that the level of tinnitus (tinnitus) will increase because the public could no longer reflect normal patterns of their ears.
The study showed 25 per cent of respondents tend to listen to an iPod or portable music, the ability to “noise level noise” similar to the voice on a lawnmower engine or tensioning device, with an intensity average exceed 85 decibels.
In its normal size, a person with normal hearing is between your audiogram 00-20 decibels, more than 30 decibels, with a range up to 100 decibels means that there is a hearing loss.
Measuring the intensity of normal hearing is recorded as an audiogram, which audigram which is between 30-40 decibels, including minor modifications. From 40 to 60 decibels, including wide half. 60-90 decibels is heavy. For example, the noise from the streets of the drilling machine even with 100 decibels. 120 decibels of jet engines. Medium room quiet about 30-40 decibels.
“Enjoy the disco music, attend a dance, working in factories, listen to music while driving or just listening to music in the room, regardless of their status if it has been disturbing the ears were classified as “noise”, said Professor Harvey Dillon, author of the research.
“It is better to listen to music at normal frequency, the disorder may not appear in the near future, but does not include the possibility of initiating a more serious condition in the years to come,” added Professor Dillon.
