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Thursday, 18 August 2005 |
MP3 users hearing damage warning
4 Hearing
Loss - New York,NY,USA
The surge in sales of iPods and other portable music players in recent
years could mean many more people will develop hearing loss, experts fear.
If the volume through headphones is too high, there is a real risk of permanent
damage to hearing, they say.
Sydney's National Acoustic Laboratories found a quarter of personal music system
users in a random sample listened to music at dangerous volumes.
The Royal National Institute for Deaf people urged awareness of the risks.
Millions now own MP3 players - Apple has sold more than 20 million iPods.
A recent study by the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) found 39%
of 18 to 24-year-olds listened to personal music players for at least an hour
every day and 42% admitted they thought they had the volume too high.
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