is it important to buy high qualtiy headphones to reduce the chnce of getting tianus?

synchro

is it important to buy high qualtiy headphones to reduce the chnce of getting titanus?

DrIndy

To clarify - do you mean "tinnitus"?

Tinnitus means hearing a ringing or buzzing sound in your ears.

Ear damage can occur in many ways - but sensory deafness occurs on the frequencies that are broadcast at the loudest. The mechanism is it damages and eventually destroys the hair receptors in your cochlea that receive that particular range of sound frequencies.

The reason for this is due to volume. Thus it does not matter so much as to the type of headphones, just how loud they are played.

synchro

perfect trhanks for tat info

DrIndy wrote:

To clarify - do you mean "tinnitus"?

Tinnitus means hearing a ringing or buzzing sound in your ears.

Ear damage can occur in many ways - but sensory deafness occurs on the frequencies that are broadcast at the loudest. The mechanism is it damages and eventually destroys the hair receptors in your cochlea that receive that particular range of sound frequencies.

The reason for this is due to volume. Thus it does not matter so much as to the type of headphones, just how loud they are played.

DrIndy

Of further note, people become sensorineural (sound frequency) deaf by specifically prolonged hearing of certain frequencies. This is common for people who work in building sites or who use angle grinders (quite specific and very loud sound). This is why it is very important to use ear protection.

You cannot make yourself deaf quickly apart from VERY loud sounds.

Interesting fact: Your hearing system adapts to loud or soft noises - this is why you get a ringing of your ears after leaving a nightclub and are that bit deaf. This tinnitus is compensatory sound that your brain perceives due to the relative absence of previous sound.

This is why you may sometimes hear your ears ringing while in bed if your room is very, very quiet......

John

Also, high frequency damage occurs much more easily than low frequency sound as the high freuency receptors are located nearest the entrance to the cochlea.