I have Brain Damage from Car Audio

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Remember this is the tech section guys, not the thunderdome. Keep the replies respectful please.

 

[Whytellyou]

What frequency caused the most damage? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I would say you are a rarity. I'm sorry that your hobby caused these things to you. It's kind of like playing with fire, sometimes you are going to get burnt. You just got thrown in the fire.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Wondering now how many people really do have brain damage from audio???

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

Yeah, if you've got all those problems from car audio at 25, then that HAS to be pretty rare. Everyone's brain is different. We all have different "normal" levels of different chemicals and neural activity. If your ears blew up this quickly, then either you had some insane levels of noise or you always had some kind of auditory sensitivity.

Holic's also right; we're all experiencing high levels of noise with long exposure times and it's well documented that these loud noises DO cause damage, from negligible(such a slight amount of damage that we don't even realize anything has happened) to severe, like in OP's case.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I still have a lot of trouble believing this. You have to understand this ca.com, and there is a huge amount of trolling on this site. So we see stuff like this on a daily basis.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

Even if he IS a troll, he brought up a very good point. We're all exposing ourselves to possible pain/debilitation later on in life. It is indeed very odd that he's got such acute hearing problems at twenty five, with listening to loud music for only five years. But it happens. I'm going to assume it's not likely for something like this specifically to happen to anybody here if they've had car audio for 10+ years.

 

[TheUnderFighter 10+ year member]

Pics of diagnosis, or it didn't happen.

 

[THATpurpleKUSH 5,000+ posts]

Shiiit I used to deliver pizza and would bump full volume the whole shift, 6-8hours a night 5 days a week for over a year at around 140db and the worst I got was some ringing in my ears.

 

[whitedragon551 5,000+ posts]

Guys this is not the Dome. Keep it serious or GTFO.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

I have had more damage to my body from worrying about things than actually doing them.

 

[MisterDeadeye 10+ year member]

But you can still take the sound of the key board but not a clock....
No offense to you but I'm calling //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/bsflag.gif.21f42eccd34b7d1eb1608fb1b59b69c3.gif

My keyboard is silent.

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

OP sounds like someone else I know, convinced their problems are related to something that could possibly make sense, but really the cause is different. A lot of what you listed off as symtoms could come from many and I mean many different things, I'd say it's pretty impossible to narrow it down to car audio. I'd believe you if you had pain in your ears and hearing loss. You may not be a troll but you are whether or not you know it making up the fact that car audio is solely responsible for these problems, and there are numerous treatments for all of these things I want to hear some of the options you are trying.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Guys this is not the Dome. Keep it serious or GTFO.

Perhaps some legitimate scientific proof that this is even possible would help people take this half seriously. Any links to research? Considering lots of people work in noisy environments (factories, concert halls, military/artillary/etc.) you'd think we would have heard of such extreme symptoms before?

I'd venture to guess if someone did indeed have the symptoms described by OP they would not be caused by loud music.