EU warns youth: turn your MP3 players down!

One of the problems is CD are made to be louder then needs to be (and quality suffers [Metallica's new album is an example.]) Everyone I know who has an mp3 is in trouble of this.

Leave it to the EU to publish a study on something like that... lol.

Really?!!! Who knew?......come on now... this SHOULD be common sense.

Same thing they said about walkman's for tapes and cd's

The EU is so late.

It is not common sense, it is not odd and is not sporadic.

People's headphones are stronger than the tube itself or anything around. It's incredibly loud.

This is serious.

Yes, this IS serious...but it shouldn't be a surprise.... who knew that feeding high volumes of sound directly into your ears could cause damage? Ask any musician...most of them have learned the hard way.

This is why I'm going to invest in hearing devices.

Our generation is gonna be spending money on them like crazy.

i just can't help it.

i like my ipod volume bar to be alll the way to the right

that's how you make the beat bump :)

I have a feeling EVERYONE knew this already...

Turn my music down!? NEVER!! I'd sooner go death.

Speaking from the perspective of a Nightclub DJ, I've experienced a lot of "Loud" situations with headphones and I'll say this...

The biggest problem with mp3 players is that most people do not have the quality of headphones they desire to hear music from. Generally speaking, most people just buy the cheap earbuds or clip-on headphones and then just crank the volume up. The real key is getting a good set of earbuds to last you awhile and with good noise reduction and bass response so that you can really enjoy your music without the excess volume.

its true i didn't kno i had my ipod on too loud until last year when my friend told me she could hear my music. So now im very careful with how high i put it on. and right now my ears feel more sensetive. im addicted to music it gets me throo hard times. but i think i listen to my ipod too much now. i listen to it everyday of the week. which i think is more then 5 hours. so this is a little informative 4 me.

This generation has not been educated about the negative affects of excessive acoustic sound. So they became a challenge and a liability to others and to themselves.

I feel that sound-isolation technology in headphones is actually helping though. They allow you to leave the volume lower than traditional headphones, so you aren't hurting yourself as much. However, a lot of these are earbuds, and I read that they're worse for your ears than over-the-ear headphones.

Turn the nagging down

What?

I am probably going to go deaf. I been listening to my walkman / discman / iPod since high school, on blast.

Next they will be saying that too much Current is bad for my brain.

Just wait until we all get past 70 and 80...MiracleEar will be banking!

And not only does it damage, I've read that it increases the bacteria in your ear.

WHAT!?!?!

I'm a preforming musician, so headphones are the least of my worries.

people have already been hit and killed by cars because theyre too busy fiddlin around with their ipod and now this. clearly loud music is the devil.

It's possible that young people listening to loud music has a lot to do with the rebellious nature of youth in addition to the enjoyment of the music. If that's the case, then telling them to turn down their music may just make them want to turn it up even more.

Once they get a little older, they might decide to stop blasting the volume. However, if they want to listen to their headphones loudly a medical study is not going to stop them.

"Preliminary data on iPods and similar devices have found lower maximum levels -- above 100 decibels (the noise volume of a chainsaw; risk of hearing damage after two hours), but not higher than 115 decibels (a football game in a loud stadium; risk of hearing damage after 15 minutes), Fligor said. To fully understand the potential impact of these devices, it is important to know that the sound is traveling a tiny distance from your earbud to your eardrum rather than being diffused in a football stadium or concert arena." -Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601100.html

You might find it a nobrainer, but i run into kids daily that have their music so loud i can hear it from a few metres away.