Fifty percent of maximum volume on a power-hungry headphone can be quite gentle. Fifty percent on a sensitive pair of earbuds, plugged into a strong source, can be loud enough to permanently harm hearing.
Turning Down the Noise of Combat
Sound suppression technology is the latest innovation in military weaponry. While hearing protection is still a must, each bit of reduction is significant.
Find Your Quiet Place Challenge 2023
The sound measurements from the challenge will enable SoundPrint to advocate for safe noise levels, help communities find quieter places, and protect the public’s hearing health.
Keep Listening, Siga Escuchando
As a member of many Facebook groups in Spanish related to hearing condition issues, I feel that with Spanish translations of key pages, HHF can reach and bring help to a lot of people who are from Spanish-speaking countries.
Silence Is Bliss With a Few Home Adjustments
For hyperacusis patients, or people who have a sensitivity to everyday sounds, common household sounds can be a significant challenge, whether it’s a door closing or cooking a meal.
Welcome to the 2022 SoundPrint Find Your Quiet Place Challenge
The goal for the Find Your Quiet Place Challenge is to generate quiet spot lists and let venue managers know that we care about noise.
Harmonically Distorted Power
I played guitar onstage steadily for the better part of 10 years, and every hour I was allowed to spend in front of a crowd was the product of ten times as much time rehearsing. And like my guitar heroes, I wanted, I craved, I “needed” to play through the legendary Marshall amplifier stack: 100 (sometimes for me, 200) watts of harmonically distorted power blasting through 8 speakers in 2 cabinets (4 speakers in each) stacked 6 feet high!
Helping Others Has Helped Me
Despite all this, including owning earplugs, it didn’t occur to me until working on the Keep Listening prevention campaign for Hearing Health Foundation how damage to your hearing is cumulative, and that I’ve been doing additional damage to my hearing through some of my daily routines.
Protecting Your Hearing Is Actually NOT That Hard
You may have noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) and not even realize it. By taking steps to prevent NIHL—which is easy once you know what to do—you can protect yourself from linked health consequences into the future.
Research Calls Attention to Dangerous Noise Levels in Gym
. A new University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) study found that those who attend indoor cycling (spinning) classes do not lower the intensity of their workouts when the volume is reduced to a safer decibel level. The findings were published in the January–March 2021 issue of the journal Noise & Health.