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Accidentally played my headphones with max volume. Headphones ruined?

post #1 of 11
2/7/12 at 11:11am
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My god. My cousin trolled me and turned my computer volume to max while I took a bathroom break. Went back, put my m50's back on, turned the song back on, and never heard something so loud in my life. My ears were ringing for awhile but they seem to be fine now. It was only playing for about 5 seconds, but the first few seconds consisted of an extremely high pitch. 

 

Just tried them on a few minutes ago, and I think they sound just as good as before. Of course any distortion I hear from this point onwards, I will blame on this event. But will this effect the life of these? Any sure-fire way to test these to see if nothing bad happened to them? I just got them yesterday! I almost pushed my cousin into a wall. I am making him pay for an Otologist appointment

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post #2 of 11
2/7/12 at 11:19am

From what I understand you either have to rip the cone from over-excursion, or play at a high volume for SO long that internal wires and such start to melt from so much input. 

 

If you have a ripped cone, you'll know it. If things are melted, it won't work at all. 

 

HOWEVER, I am also curious about this subject. Does pushing your headphones to distortion for a brief moment harmful in any regard? Will that lead to reduced life for the driver? How much punishment can a driver take? I've hit distortion a few times while testing out limits on headphones. Does that really cause amy damage? Perceived or not?

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post #3 of 11
2/7/12 at 11:26am

Only on Head Fi would someone be more concerned in this case about damage to their headphones than damage to their ears lol

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post #4 of 11
2/7/12 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by UCLA 15 View Post

Only on Head Fi would someone be more concerned in this case about damage to their headphones than damage to their ears lol



LOL. They *seem* to be fine ;)

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post #5 of 11
2/8/12 at 1:23am
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Originally Posted by ivantoar View Post

LOL. They *seem* to be fine ;)


The M50 can handle a lot of power, and if your "computer" source was onboard audio, then it is unlikely to have been damaged.

 

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post #6 of 11
2/8/12 at 1:33am

If they got damaged you would hear it now. Since they sound like before they are OK.

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post #7 of 11
2/8/12 at 2:12am

I don't understand how people, especially a relative can pull such pranks, no way in hell I'd purposedly make another person risk a hearing damage for rest of his life. Your hearing is worth beyond what money can make up for.

 

Too bad so many people in this age doesn't understand how vulnerable our hearing can be and neither value it high at all, if it was him that got pranked he'd prolly just think it was a funny joke when his ears are ringing for a little while. >_<


Edited by RPGWiZaRD - 2/8/12 at 2:14am
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post #8 of 11
2/8/12 at 2:28am
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Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD View Post

I don't understand how people, especially a relative can pull such pranks, no way in hell I'd purposedly make another person risk a hearing damage for rest of his life. Your hearing is worth beyond what money can make up for.

I guess they don't teach about hearing damage in schools.
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post #9 of 11
2/8/12 at 2:33am
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Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD View Post

I don't understand how people, especially a relative can pull such pranks, no way in hell I'd purposedly make another person risk a hearing damage for rest of his life. Your hearing is worth beyond what money can make up for.

 

Too bad so many people in this age doesn't understand how vulnerable our hearing can be and neither value it high at all, if it was him that got pranked he'd prolly just think it was a funny joke when his ears are ringing for a little while. >_<



Good post.  Part of being young and, frankly, stupid is "you don't know what you don't know".   

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post #10 of 11
2/8/12 at 2:41am

Obviously your cousin does not respect you, you need to challenge him in a melee duel and show him who's the boss.

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post #11 of 11
2/8/12 at 5:04am

It could been worst, good thing your ears is not permanent Damaged. Some people are unluckier then you and have it permanent in one ear, or both and or have it very bad.

 

One simple way to stop him from doing it again, is put a password on your user name, then only have one. Before you go afk, log out. So he cant screw around and do something stupid to your settings, Thou you could grab him by the shirt and throw him out the front door,Because that will work too.

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