edulov
100+ Head-Fier
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Sorry to hear, but listening not to loud is a kind of common sense as-is, not even talking about long sessions. Your sound level was not deadly, just quite dangerous. Hearing will be restored, but w/o having earlier checks it will be difficult to find to which extent. Since I stopped listening loud music many-many years ago, I discovered the same effect (even at moderate loudness level) after listening bass heavy headphones with really extended bass. About 20min and I feel myself deafened for several hours (more then 4hrs).
The only reason behind this is biological. Frequences between 14Hz and 32Hz are related with brain activity and 15Hz and lower affect functions of human cells (loud infrasound sound levels).
Just to compare with sad stories, what I was able to check with my headphones and gear. 45 years old.
Lows: 6Hz Treble: at least 21500Hz (need better amp to go higher)
Resolution: 1/2dB w/o effort, 1/4dB, sometimes less in special tests with some training (I am audio fan, not musician, but some of my directly blood related relatives are tough in pro music/sound engineering)
Dynamic resolution (difference of levels of different voices/instruments in live track at my comfortable loudness level). Never did such tests on purpose since they depend much from amp and hp. But I know that this number IS BIG and this stops me from commenting some reviews here, becouse reviewer states headphone resolution as good or very good, but for me it is regular or worse. Bad hearing? Bad gear? Bad cables? Inapropriate test tracks? It also corresponds to some "heavy weight" head'i-fi'ers also.
Make fuss? But too many people have "normal" hearing; corresponding to the age tendencies, so from this point of view such reviews are valid. But taking it seriously - their recommendations only fool "lucky people" like me. And improve sells of the quite regular headphones.
Sorry If I have hurt somebody.
The only reason behind this is biological. Frequences between 14Hz and 32Hz are related with brain activity and 15Hz and lower affect functions of human cells (loud infrasound sound levels).
Just to compare with sad stories, what I was able to check with my headphones and gear. 45 years old.
Lows: 6Hz Treble: at least 21500Hz (need better amp to go higher)
Resolution: 1/2dB w/o effort, 1/4dB, sometimes less in special tests with some training (I am audio fan, not musician, but some of my directly blood related relatives are tough in pro music/sound engineering)
Dynamic resolution (difference of levels of different voices/instruments in live track at my comfortable loudness level). Never did such tests on purpose since they depend much from amp and hp. But I know that this number IS BIG and this stops me from commenting some reviews here, becouse reviewer states headphone resolution as good or very good, but for me it is regular or worse. Bad hearing? Bad gear? Bad cables? Inapropriate test tracks? It also corresponds to some "heavy weight" head'i-fi'ers also.
Make fuss? But too many people have "normal" hearing; corresponding to the age tendencies, so from this point of view such reviews are valid. But taking it seriously - their recommendations only fool "lucky people" like me. And improve sells of the quite regular headphones.
Sorry If I have hurt somebody.