Warning to headphone users.

[AlphaNut]

Re: Warning to headphone users.

Not worried at all since I use good headset at a moderate sound volume.

Many scientists are debating wheter it is worse for your ears if you use headphones. They are still arguing, and have not come to a conclusion yet.

Another thing is, you might be lucky, and live in a house where no neighbours are going to get annoyed from constant war going on in the flat next door.
Not all of us have this luxury. I could not imagine turning up my 5.1 speaker system in the middle of the night...

another thing that you should take into account is that headphones (full ear coverage) are much better for your hearing then earbuds. And it also matters a lot what kind of quality, and volume leveling your headphones are capable of producing.

[poisonsoul]

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no safe volume.

Is off a volume? Because if it is then that's a safe volume. :p

Your ears were not designed to process noise constantly.

Where do you live? Where there isn't constant noise, the moon?

Your hearing will naturally degrade over time as you get older

Of course your hearing degrades naturally over time, just talk to your grandparents or parents if they're as old as mine.

[Donkey]

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Check out this very interesting FAQ on hearing loss...

http://www.american-hearing.org/name/noise_induced.html

People should also not that lower frequancies will not do as much damage as higher frequancies...Sounds is a pretty crazy thing and all in all you should be carefull with your ears since you have to use them for the rest of your life...And man it would probly suck not hearing your girl _________________ followed by your name....hehehe if ya know what I mean

[gilad50303]

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I have a mic, not headphones, and that works excellent for VOIP and for the game. No damage and I get the benefits of VOIP.

[Doctor]

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if its not 1 thing its another these days

[Black_05_TL_6sd]

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I have a mic, not headphones, and that works excellent for VOIP and for the game. No damage and I get the benefits of VOIP.

I to use a standard mic and speakers, I have no problems with VOIP. If you are trying to use the auto VOIP, then I could see there being a problem, but if you use the mapped key, no biggie, everyone hears me fine.

[Suntzu69]

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Indeed. Any of these have the potential to destroy your health over the long run or in a few years if abused on a daily basis:

- spending an hour or more outside with no sunscreen.
- smoking
- eating white bread (colon cancer)
- alcohol (heart disease will kill most of us)
- overeating (diabetes)
- blasting headphones

A guy I know didn't want to wear sunscreen on his summer job (pool lifeguard) to get darker. He got a deadly form of skin cancer at 25 years of age, but survived luckily. You don't really think much of these threats, until you know a victim. Another friend of mine got cancer of the larynx at 22 because she smokes, and survived after chimo treatments.

Moderation and health ftw. I eat whole wheat bread at home, but my Quiznos sub is white bread (mmmm).

[bitvomit]

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You don't need the volume turned high in Battlefield 2, because there isn't a huge dynamic range in the audio. In Counter-Strike, for example, you would need to turn the volume up so that gunshots approach 100 dB in order to effectively hear footsteps.

CS is what worries me the most. I know for a fact that many people raise their volume just so they can hear footsteps accurately. I used to do it too. CS:S is even worse because Valve actually lowered the volume on footsteps, I recall lots of people giving "tips" to turn your volume up in the steampowered forums when CS:S came out.

[sgtsam150892]

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Thats ok i dont use headphones at all. Is it still dangerouse to play games without earphones but speakers intergrated into ur monitor?

[imported_ColonelPanic]

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Whatever. It's only bad for your hearing if you turn it too loud and leave it that way for extended periods.

Don't believe the fear mongers.

[Jedi_Joe]

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i dont use headphone's,
if i did then i wasted my money on a sound system

[Tobacco]

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All I can say is that you are foolish. You will be worried when it starts to become a problem.

Dude, if you want to start worrying about something, worry about the Ice Caps(Artic/Antartica), because once they're gone it's over for everyone. Hearing - pffft.

[bitvomit]

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Dude, if you want to start worrying about something, worry about the Ice Caps(Artic/Antartica), because once they're gone it's over for everyone. Hearing - pffft.

This thread is not about the Ice Caps, troll.

[XmetallicaXguitarstX]

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Hell I already have bad hearing, and i'm 16. Playing guitar for the past 6-7 years hasn't helped my hearing much :p

And neither has my amp



:laugh:

[bitvomit]

Re: Warning to headphone users.

Hell I already have bad hearing, and i'm 16. Playing guitar for the past 6-7 years hasn't helped my hearing much :p

And neither has my amp



:laugh:

That's nothing to joke about. You should invest in some ear plugs. Pretty much all professional musicians use them.