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Ear damage by MP3, DVD and digital television?
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| CygnusX |
I just found this interesting article on cdfreaks.com. We should all stop using compressed audio cause it will damage our hearing. Due to the compression, which leaves certain sounds out, the ears would become lazy and degrade.
The article:
| quote: | | From the view of neuronomy it is therefore to classify, although not as acutely dangerous, at least as very precarious that a wider and wider spreading audio transmission technology for data reduction just systematically removes those spectral sound portions at the auditory threshold, on those normally the hearing processor fields of our brain decide whether they shall be perceived or filtered out, because so the signal for their self calibration is missing, whereby at longer term a maladjustment of the hearing processor fields can threaten. Possible consequences of intensive consumption of datareduced audio material could therefore include ear noises (tinitus), a general degradation of the perception of quiet sounds, as well as a worsened timbre perception (a so-called "tin ear"), which would make the human of the cyberage even more insensitive than he already yet has become by the continuous mass media infotrash bombardment he is exposed to. Actually it is still unclear whether the consequences of such maladjustments are only temporary (similarly like seeing the world in green/ red discoloured after taking off red/ green 3D glasses) or if the continuous consumption of neuroacoustically datareduced sounds can lead to long lasting or even permanent damage. |
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I'm gonna destroy all my dvds and delete all my mp3s now.
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| Carona |
| After seeing Tiesto last month i'm gonna be deaf in 20 years anyways :( |
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| Kimmi |
| We all might as well just chop our ears off now! Hahaha. I'd imagine that later on when we're older they'll be able to fix such things... |
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| benfica88 |
| quote: | Originally posted by CygnusX
I just found this interesting article on cdfreaks.com. We should all stop using compressed audio cause it will damage our hearing. Due to the compression, which leaves certain sounds out, the ears would become lazy and degrade.
The article:
:nervous: :nervous: :nervous: :nervous:
I'm gonna destroy all my dvds and delete all my mp3s now.
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Let me guess...the RIAA funded this study,no? This is absolute nonsense. |
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| BTG |
| quote: | Originally posted by Carona
After seeing Tiesto last month i'm gonna be deaf in 20 years anyways :( |
20 years, i'll be deaf before i'm even 20.
god damn headphones! :D |
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| Arbiter |
| Well if that doesn't put the pseudo in pseudoscience, I don't know what does. Next thing we're going to hear is that RGB color spectrums damage our ability to perceive yellow. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Can someone name ANY type of sound that does NOT damage your hearing? |
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| Taz |
Ah yes, very nicely written technical-looking piece of copy. Unless someone shows me substantial evidence to prove me wrong, it's TOTAL BULL.
| quote: | | it is at least as very precarious that a wider and wider spreading audio transmission technology for data reduction just systematically removes those spectral sound portions at the auditory threshold, on those normally the hearing processor fields of our brain decide whether they shall be perceived or filtered out |
First of all, the sound portions at the auditory threshold are covered up by record noise, tape hiss, amplifier noise, ty soundcard hiss, you name it. And it's been that way since the Edison cylinders and 78's. Second, there's a natural thing called masking which means that if one sound is much louder and busier than the other, you won't hear the lower sound. Ever.
| quote: | | because so the signal for their self calibration is missing, whereby at longer term a maladjustment of the hearing processor fields can threaten. |
Well at SOME point during the day you'd better take off your headphones!
| quote: | | Possible consequences of intensive consumption of datareduced audio material could therefore include ear noises (tinitus), a general degradation of the perception of quiet sounds, as well as a worsened timbre perception (a so-called "tin ear") |
Classic symptoms of overstimulation of the ears, not lazy ears as implied. But I'll say this much: Digital media sounds very strident and hard, and the new mastering techniques put everything up in your face so it's a constant wall of sound. If an MP3 is really mushy-sounding, you might turn it up to get the impact and detail, and given today's big loud production values plus that nasty digital edge, yes it's hard on the ears. But if you keep the volume at a level in which you can still hear the typical sounds around you, you're fine.
| quote: | | which would make the human of the cyberage even more insensitive than he already yet has become by the continuous mass media infotrash bombardment he is exposed to. |
They made up the facts AND the words! Brilliant!!
| quote: | | Actually it is still unclear whether the consequences of such maladjustments are only temporary (similarly like seeing the world in green/ red discoloured after taking off red/ green 3D glasses) or if the continuous consumption of neuroacoustically datareduced sounds can lead to long lasting or even permanent damage. |
I'm waiting.
Ok, if you're really worried, transfer everything to cassette tape. It's got a nice noise floor to keep that "background sound" part of your brain busy and it's not as hard on the ears.
I really suspect propaganda here.
[edit]Actually, I had a closer look at the article in full. It's not propaganda, and there is acknowledgement of some of my points but it's still not quite legit because a)it's just on someone's little home page b)there's no credit given, i.e. no one with an official title is accountable for anything in the article.[/edit] |
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| jinxed84 |
there is BS and then there is bad BS...this is worse than bad BS it breaks new ground in the world or total bull feces
funny thing about hearing loss though, today in physics we were doing stuff on sound and my teacher was playing with a sound generator going through all the frequencies and she couldnt hear a wide range of what we could hear, it was wierd cause we all heard the high pitched rather loud sound and she was like "i dont hear anything"
sucks to know that we all might be like that when we get old |
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| DJ Chrono |
I know, like hearing the really high pitched sound electric devices give off, like TVs, computer monitors, sub woofers, many things.
My parents can never hear it, but i can quite easily. |
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| Verona^My |
| quote: | Originally posted by benfica88
Let me guess...the RIAA funded this study,no? This is absolute nonsense. |
sounds about right, doesn't take an ear doctor to figure out the RIAA, although they are quite tone deaf when it comes to the artists they sign.. |
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