I'll argue against that - I worked as a live sound engineer for six years without earplugs, regularly max-out MP3 player volume levels and can still hear a pube drop. Hands off my eardrums, Jobs.
I have powerful subwoofers in my car which I use to blast music. I also routinely listen to music and television loud through a 7.1 surround sound in my room.
I never turn the volume up to the point of "pain" but what I do get sometimes during absolute silence is a ringing in my ear that seems to come and go every now and then.
apparently, hearing is like FINE CARPET.
If you step on it infrequently, it will puff back up still appearing like new - but, if you trample it frequently, it will wear out.
It's about preventing and defending lawsuits. Nothing more. They don't care about your ears or what you do to them. They only care about their bank account.
So, the technology will be there, turned on by default probably but able to be disabled. So people will turn it off. The public will be happy, Apple will be happy, lawsuit scavengers will be crying in their beers.
you know, its one of the three biggest lies of sound technicians to say "yeah, it's gotta be that loud". the other two being "yes, i know what all those controls are for" and "yeah, i've got to be dressed in black."
@flashpoint: re "I never turn the volume up to the point of "pain" but what I do get sometimes during absolute silence is a ringing in my ear that seems to come and go every now and then."
That's tinnitis (sp?) Perminant hearing damage. That's why I'm not a sound engineer anymore.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I'll argue against that - I worked as a live sound engineer for six years without earplugs, regularly max-out MP3 player volume levels and can still hear a pube drop. Hands off my eardrums, Jobs.
::loudly:: What?
I have powerful subwoofers in my car which I use to blast music. I also routinely listen to music and television loud through a 7.1 surround sound in my room.
I never turn the volume up to the point of "pain" but what I do get sometimes during absolute silence is a ringing in my ear that seems to come and go every now and then.
apparently, hearing is like FINE CARPET.
If you step on it infrequently, it will puff back up still appearing like new - but, if you trample it frequently, it will wear out.
It's about preventing and defending lawsuits. Nothing more. They don't care about your ears or what you do to them. They only care about their bank account.
So, the technology will be there, turned on by default probably but able to be disabled. So people will turn it off. The public will be happy, Apple will be happy, lawsuit scavengers will be crying in their beers.
you know, its one of the three biggest lies of sound technicians to say "yeah, it's gotta be that loud". the other two being "yes, i know what all those controls are for" and "yeah, i've got to be dressed in black."
@flashpoint: re "I never turn the volume up to the point of "pain" but what I do get sometimes during absolute silence is a ringing in my ear that seems to come and go every now and then."
That's tinnitis (sp?)
Perminant hearing damage. That's why I'm not a sound engineer anymore.
If you listen for pubes dropping, you seriously need help.
NOW.