Hearing... is Your iPod Killing Yours?

Today's young people always seem to only enjoy listening to their favorite music loudly, and if you can crank it up even louder, then by all means do it! I want to tell you a little bit about how the earphones to the iPod can damage your hearing if you have the music way too loud.

The ear has sensative little bones and sensors in it. If any of these are damaged it can cause serious hearing complications.

The iPod's ear-buds are designed to rest just outside the ear canal. This makes the music focused into the ear. If they're turned too high, however, this can damage the ear drum.

Newsweek Magazine just recently found a study at the House Ear Institute that showed that audio headphones today can bypass“signal distortion that occurs with traditional analog audio.” This showed that no matter how high you turn up the volume, it is still unaltered and clear as it was with lower volume settings.

This can cause major strain on the inner ear, and potentially prematurly cause hearing loss in today's younger generation.

So here is my encouragement to you:

Keep the volume down, or get new headphones that won't peirce straight into your ears. Hearing loss is frustrating to most people. Unless, of course, you want to get out of arguing with a spouse. Then by all means, crank it up!