I don't crank it the way I used to.
One more note, the music of the last 15 years has sucked ass. I have to wonder why the kids are listening to it loud?
KISS Singer Says Turn Down the Music: Will You Listen?
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2011/05/04 23:11:09
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Paul Stanley, the man who has been singing "Shout It Out Loud" and "All Hell's Breakin' Loose" as the lead singer of KISS for decades, is urging teens to turn their music down, Fox News reports.
Why? Because it might damage your hearing, of course!
Stanley himself suffers from an uncommon hearing disorder that he's had his entire life, but it's apparently driven him to keep a close eye (or ear) on hearing loss statistics.
Why? Because it might damage your hearing, of course!
Statistics show that adolescent hearing problems have risen 30 percent in the past 15 years. That's about 1 in every 5 teenagers who are suffering from some kind of hearing loss. The rise is, in part, due to the popularity of loud activities teenagers take part in - going to concerts or cheering at football games, for example.
Stanley himself suffers from an uncommon hearing disorder that he's had his entire life, but it's apparently driven him to keep a close eye (or ear) on hearing loss statistics.
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Chris - The Rowdy One! #187 2011/05/05 18:57:15
I can tell you this if you can avoid it you do not want to loose your hearing. It takes you out of everything and it is very annoying for those close to you also.
TURN IT DOWN...before it is too late!
But as far back as my childhood .. my brothers and I would all be working around engines .. mechanical devices .. tuning them .. maintaining them .. running them (my father was a paraplegic .. so he taught us how to do this) ...
WE would always put cotton in our ears .. or put on those over the head earphones (not connected to anything).
I have Law Quality ear protectors from my Military time (several pairs in fact) .. as well as have special ones for working with the Chain Saw or on my Tractor too.
I've only attended a couple of concerts in person where it was SO LOUD as to shake the building .. but I did have those squishable Ear protective Plugs to put in my ears (and it did allow me to sit there comfortably ... although the vibrations did seem to trigger my migraines).
Needless to say .. even in the Vehicles .. the volume is DOWN .. in the House the Volume is down .. and with the MP3 Player .. I have the volume down at a low level .. where when MY Adult Children picked it up to hear what I was listening to (They like to laugh at my choices) .. they said they couldn't HEAR what I was playing (to me it was almost loud!)
NOW Over a half-century old .. MY HEARING is still good (thankfully) -- because I am VISUALLY IMPAIRED .. so HEARING is what I rely upon to keep posting here!
Have you ever been to a concert and when it was over your ears were ringing? Maybe, at least for awhile, it was hard to hear what others were saying. If that has happened to you you then have a picture of your future only it will be permanent. Turn it down now.
I worked as a senior programmer analyst and was forced to retire at age 62 because I could no longer attend meetings. When you can't understand what you are being told you can't do the work required.
Not everyone experiences this but I can tell you it is not something you will be happy with should it happen to you. My doctor says that loud noise plays very prominently in hearing loss.
Any chance you have any ringing in your ears now?
If so it is too late so you might as well crank it up. There will come a day when even that won't help. Music is the one thing I miss the most.
I truly hope that you will not have this happen to you. I use to think that if I had to lose anything as I go...
I worked as a senior programmer analyst and was forced to retire at age 62 because I could no longer attend meetings. When you can't understand what you are being told you can't do the work required.
Not everyone experiences this but I can tell you it is not something you will be happy with should it happen to you. My doctor says that loud noise plays very prominently in hearing loss.
Any chance you have any ringing in your ears now?
If so it is too late so you might as well crank it up. There will come a day when even that won't help. Music is the one thing I miss the most.
I truly hope that you will not have this happen to you. I use to think that if I had to lose anything as I got older hearing would be okay. I can tell you now from personal experience that I was oh so wrong. We have no idea how much we learn from our hearing. Better than loosing your eyes? Yes. But not much better. You have no idea how much you miss out on. And trust me not many people want to talk with someone that makes them repeat themselves all the time.
Just to give you an idea, next time you go to a movie...notice how much music is playing in the background. Even as loud as they play a movie in a theater, when you have that background music, I cannot understand what is being said. And that is with hearing aids.
Like I say....Good luck to you.
One more note, the music of the last 15 years has sucked ass. I have to wonder why the kids are listening to it loud?
If you are referring to the likes of, Justin Bieber and any of that other candy pop crap, I'm in total agreement.