Tuesday, August 18, 2009

iPods cause a buzz in your Ears

Music is one of many way to raise our spirit, music makes life more alive, but what happens when the music make the ears buzz? Certainly not the music that make the ears' ngungung ', but the behavior we listen to music can decrease our hearing ability.
Researchers in Australia found about a quarter of users have trouble hearing iPods. iPods maniac or other portable music players user are often at risk to increase drone ears (tinnitus) or other hearing problems, this trend found in many more users of iPods frantic play iPods to its volume.
National Acoustic Laboratories in Sydney ask the respondents to listen to music with a volume comparable with the motor motorized device (ie: drill machine). The researchers found that the level of buzz (tinnitus) will increase because their hearing ability are no longer adopt the ear normal practice.
The research notes, about 25 percent of respondents tend to listen to iPods or other portable music in the capacity of 'noisy' comparable to the level of noise sounds in the mowing equipment and motorized device motor, with an average intensity above 85 decibels.
Normal in size, people with normal hearing audiogram is located between 0 to 20 decibels, more than 30 decibels to 100 decibel hearing means that there is interference.
Size intensity recorded in normal hearing audiogram form, where audiogram which is located between 30 to 40 decibels, including light interference. From 40 to 60 decibels scale are included. Between 60 to 90 decibel already heavy. As an illustration, the sound of a street machine with the drill 100 decibel. Aircraft engine 120 decibel. A quiet room are roughly about 30 to 40 decibel.
"Enjoy the wave disco music, attend the ball, working in the factory, listening to music while driving or just listening to music in the room, if any condition with the ear that includes category of 'noise'," said Professor Harvey Dillon, the research mastermind.
"It's a good listen if the music in the normal frequency, this interference may not appear in the near future but do not close the possibility of triggering a more serious interference few years," added Prof. Dillon.


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