Why Your Headphones Are Too Loud

In today’s world, we often find ourselves using headphones to tune out a multitude of outside noise- chatty coworkers, train rumblings, roommates watching TV shows, and more. Unfortunately, cranking up the volume of your headphones can permanently damage your hearing, and approximately 26 million Americans between 20 and 69 have noise induced hearing loss.

Teenagers are especially susceptible to damaging their hearing by using headphones; research shows that 81% of teens listen to music with earphones, and rates of hearing loss among teenagers today is about 30% higher than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. However, teenagers are blissfully …read more