my parents and what not always are saying im going to loose my hearing... I always tell them there wrong. Im constantly proving them wrong to! referring to the cell phone, I can hear a cell phone going off from a pretty good distance away that my mom cannot hear. I know i have a modest system by ca.com standards, but to my parents its loud as fvck. But i am already used to mine and am ready to upgrade haha. gona go with 15's now. Its bottom less pit of money! your getting used to it!