Car Audio causing you to have hearing damage?
12-28-2009, 01:01 AM
#11
i have some badass hearing loss in my right ear....who ever says low frequency cant cause damage is an idiot. Your eardrum vibrates much like a speaker cone and the speed and variation of the vibrations translate to your brain the pitch and message. The intensity of the vibration translates as volume. Low frequency can cause large tearing to the diaphragm within short periods while high frequency causes this tearing over extended periods. The extent of damage over time is different from person to person as our ears all protect themselves with wax, some more than others and some instantly form wax while others wax slowly. Im sure there are other factors involved but im not a doctor!!
12-28-2009, 03:21 AM
#14
Me it was basically my ear drum or tympanic membrame, i was playing around with my car ready to burp it and forgot my left ear plug, turned it on and instantly felt a stabbing pain in my ear. It still has not completly healed so when out in cold weather or around even moderate noise i have to put a cotton ball in it or it hurts like a b***h. I have gotten tons of infections also from wax going in behind it.
From the mayo clinic
-Tympanic membrame rupture; caused by a very loud noise (acoustic trauma) or the insertion of a sharp object too far into the ear.
Acoustic Trauma- caused by implosive noises, such as explosions or machines that create a loud impact.
From the mayo clinic
-Tympanic membrame rupture; caused by a very loud noise (acoustic trauma) or the insertion of a sharp object too far into the ear.
Acoustic Trauma- caused by implosive noises, such as explosions or machines that create a loud impact.
12-28-2009, 10:01 AM
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I've read that it's SPL that causes hearing damage.
Dangerous Decibels: About Hearing Loss
This is a great read
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Dangerous Decibels: About Hearing Loss
This is a great read
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12-28-2009, 11:58 AM
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Pressure hurts the body. High frequencies are the more common culprit as loud SQ has been an issue for centuries, many symphonic musicians have experienced hearing damage (imagine the bell of a trombone 2 feet from your ears), and of course rock musicians too. but are low frequencies less or more damaging? I don't fully know but the low freq should cause eardrum Xms issues eh? I suspect low and higher frequencies cause different kinds of hearing damage. I have been in single tone sound fields (20- 100 Hz) of 150dB as have many of you, but I don't think I have been in a broad range sound-field much over 140 dB (industrial noise) and then I had single or double hearing protection.
Low frequencies do damage to the core of the body, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, feelings of uneasiness, over time your body alters itself due to loud SPL by thickening the abdomen, lungs and walls of the heart. This would take years so the result shows up later in life probably after your out of the sound field.
Low frequencies do damage to the core of the body, difficulty breathing, heart palpitations, feelings of uneasiness, over time your body alters itself due to loud SPL by thickening the abdomen, lungs and walls of the heart. This would take years so the result shows up later in life probably after your out of the sound field.
12-28-2009, 07:40 PM
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Once you start to having ringing in your years for awhile, you then realize your hearing is damaged and there's no going back 
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I remember being at an Eagles concert and I was far away, yet it was still so loud. I had ringing in my ears for a day or two and the concert was outside.
It's a lot worse in clubs because it bounces off the walls.
.I remember being at an Eagles concert and I was far away, yet it was still so loud. I had ringing in my ears for a day or two and the concert was outside.
It's a lot worse in clubs because it bounces off the walls.
