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Any "noise" will damage hearing even classical music wiil eventually

Posted by airtime (A) on June 24, 2016 at 07:39:13

In Reply to: Offer bass extension for your children's hearing protection? posted by dave789 on June 23, 2016 at 11:23:10:

Deep subwoofer bass will eventually be a comfort sound to their generation.

But yes it will diminish their low end hearing. Like earlier generations damaged their higher octave hearing.

I can't explain it well but here it goes. Remember in the 60's (ah the first problem). Most music was recorded with almost all of the music below, for a lack of an exact number, 100hz missing. This was because the average person was listening to car radios that were pretty simple. Or those portable new fangled transistor radios that didn't go below 100hz anyway.

Pop in a Chambers Brothers disk or a Monkeys disk and you'll hear what I mean.

So this generation has been raised with powered subwoofers in cars, HT stereos and they really no longer use "transistor" radios. Even ear buds go down to 50hz or deeper.

Edits: 06/24/16

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