According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), being exposed to more than 85 decibels of sound for eight hours can damage your hearing. So the answer is obviously No.
Here are a few steps that are recommended avoid causing damage to hearing:
- Use headphones instead of earphones: it remains trust that listening too loudly and for long periods of time is an unhealthy behavior, headphones can better isolate the background noise, thus enabling you to listen at a lower volume. Compared to ear phones, headphones put the source of sound farther away from your inner ears. This extra space can confer protection to the eardrums from the strain of listening to direct noise.
- Choose volumes <85 decibels: any sound that is higher can cause hearing damage. 85 decibels is roughly the sound of city traffic heard from inside a car.
- Give your ears a break: listening to music for extended periods of time can impair your hearing.
Make sure you do NOT fall asleep while listening to music, especially if you are wearing ear phones, because if you there is music playing in your ears for hours at a time, this significantly increases the risk of causing permanent damage to the ears.If you are one of those people who need to listen to music to fall sleep, choose soft songs (like classical music) and have it play at a low volume from a speaker by your bed.
- The 60/60 rule: avoid turning the sound volume beyond 60%, and only listen to music with ear phones for a maximum of 60 minutes per day.Keep in mind that higher pitched sounds have a greater potential to induce ear damage than lower pitched sounds. Consider turning down the volume when a high-pitched song comes on.
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