Why do we get used to it?....

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

its called being human and adapting. i dont need to question it because i know it works. when it stops, then i'll either start asking questions to the doctor. or be dead.

Like I said, by the time you notice somethings wrong you'll need a hearing aid. Your hearing does come back if you stop listening so loud for a bit, but it wont' be quite as good, but close enough you don't notice it until it's too late. For those of you who think your hearing is fine. Spend the next week counting how many times you say "huh" or "what" when someone talks to you in a somewhat noisy environment. Not really loud, just some background noise.

 

[Prowler573 5,000+ posts]

its called being human and adapting. i dont need to question it because i know it works. when it stops, then i'll either start asking questions to the doctor. or be dead.

My money's on being dead, quite frankly.

You always have the most disturbing avatars! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[JAZN 5,000+ posts]

because they are closer to that 3khz that we are more sensitive with. why do you think most people laugh out loud when they hear a LOUD bass stage, but CRINGE! when you have loud loud loud tweeters. In my opinion, that tells the truth in itself.

Biologists think that that higher sensitivity may have an evolutionary correlation partly b/c a baby's cry is pretty close to 3khz. Pure coincidence? Who knows...

High intensity sounds can shear off the hair cells, and in humans the damage is irreversible b/c they can't be regenerated.

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

Biologists think that that higher sensitivity may have an evolutionary correlation partly b/c a baby's cry is pretty close to 3khz. Pure coincidence? Who knows...

High intensity sounds can shear off the hair cells, and in humans the damage is irreversible b/c they can't be regenerated.

yeah, 3k would be close to a baby, the entire human speech range is pretty close to the higher points of our hearing, makes sense. Noises above 8k don't exist much in the natural world either, same with lower notes. Not enough you'd "need" them to survive anyway. I knew that, but never thought of it much.

edit:700 posts, go me!

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

Ya, they take out all those lower not you cant hear from minidiscs and music players to save file size, i believe. If we can't hear them......they dont need to be put through en ear piece that cant reproduce it, itself. All this is very interesting.

 

[Eugenics 5,000+ posts]

i was born half deaf so im not worried about caraudio damaging anything.