J3mo
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Hey all, this question's been nagging at me for quite some time, but it suddenly dawned on me today that you guys'd be the best ppl to ask this to.
I commute to my school and I had some crappy no-namer open cans before i switched to my e3's. With these junk phones i had to crank up the volume to the top of my ipod mini's setting for the music to be even audible. Ever since i got the e3's, i only had to raise the volume on my mini about two clicks for me to hear comfortably and if i wanted to really hear the music, then about a third of the max volume. So hence the question: do i incur hearing damage relative to the absolute volume? or relative volume?
cause if my hearing gets damaged just by how much of sound there are in the bus / train, then my ears should be taking quite a beating just by commuting. Not only that, i don't perceive the background sound to be loud at all while i'm commuting. However, when i put my e3's on and crank up my volume dial to half the max volume, the ipod should only be outputting the volume at a level that would not have even been audible for me when i had my no-namer cans on. And yet, the level of sound is beyond comfort...
thanks
I commute to my school and I had some crappy no-namer open cans before i switched to my e3's. With these junk phones i had to crank up the volume to the top of my ipod mini's setting for the music to be even audible. Ever since i got the e3's, i only had to raise the volume on my mini about two clicks for me to hear comfortably and if i wanted to really hear the music, then about a third of the max volume. So hence the question: do i incur hearing damage relative to the absolute volume? or relative volume?
cause if my hearing gets damaged just by how much of sound there are in the bus / train, then my ears should be taking quite a beating just by commuting. Not only that, i don't perceive the background sound to be loud at all while i'm commuting. However, when i put my e3's on and crank up my volume dial to half the max volume, the ipod should only be outputting the volume at a level that would not have even been audible for me when i had my no-namer cans on. And yet, the level of sound is beyond comfort...
thanks