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Dear folks,
I love live music more than my rig or my music collection but lately I started feeling a hearing loss and almost stopped visiting concert venues. I observe it especially when talking over the phone having an effort to recognize spoken sentences and words and at a distance or when someone is not looking at me directly. Is there anything that I can use to tame the loudness at the concert venues? Is there anything I have to do at my work place since it's often getting hard to communicate with me especially over the phone?... Is there anything could be done besides getting a hearing aids at my age of 35?
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ncarv
983 posts
 
Several musicians, including Pete Townshend, have suffered damage to their ears from listening to loud music, especially tinnitus. He, and others, now wear earplugs when they play and recommend that concertgoers do the same.
I don't know if I have suffered hearing loss, so I guess I'm lucky. I do remember concerts where I have come home and have had my ears ringing through the next day.
ozfly
887 posts
 
You might want to talk to a doctor to isolate the cause of the hearing loss. Once you know why it's happening, and there could be lots of reasons other than exposure to noise, you can then address it. Smoking, exposure to solvents, infections, fluid in the middle ear and other factors can all lead to hearing loss. There are also different types of loss with different treatments. Get it checked out. It'll cost less than a new cable and may produce much better results. Kidding aside, please check it out.
champtree
47 posts
 
This is my biggest gripe. WHY do we have to listen to music so LOUD?? Then we wonder what hapeened to our hearing. OSHA gives fines to companies who's employees are NOT wear hearing protection and yet OSHA looks the other way at resturants, concerts, Ipods, and etc! I HATE ROCK MUSIC FOR THIS REASON!!!! There is NO REASON rock music has to be played loud. Just this morning, at the bagel shop, I gave an order to a younger person and see couldn't hear me and gave me wrong thing. All because she couldn't hear.

One of the my beloved gifts is to hear my stereo, (NOT LOUD)!
larryken
537 posts
 
Get to a friggin' ENT and get tested and examined...you're too young to have a big problem....something is wrong...get it checked out now.
Larry
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