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Like listening to loud bumping music? Love going to the club? Take the subway without wearing headphones or something that protects your hearing? If yes, then great, you are effectively destroying your hearing and will probably be nearly deaf by age 60! Is that what you are going for? I didn’t think so.
Well I have to admit, I used to listen to loud music all the time (something I still do), I had a serious stereo system in my car and to add injury to insult, would routinely stand next to the speakers at a club cause I thought it was cool. How could that be cool? I am not sure but for some reason I wanted to be like the guys who stood next to the speakers. I once saw a guy sleeping in a speaker box! Anyway, so I surely lost some hearing, but now protect my precious hearing. I rarely turn the music up very loud, I try not to go to clubs and if I do I wear earplugs, and I always wear headphones when taking the subway, so that I can block out some of the noise.
Why am I doing this? Simple, to protect my hearing so at the age of 50 or 60 I will hopefully be able to hearing enough of the frequency range so that I can still make music. For me it has always been about the music, now I know that I need to protect me hearing so I do, and so should you.
Test a hearing here http://www.egopont.com/hearing_tests.php?soundID=20000 and remember, lost hearing is gone forever!
Check out this cool NY Times article about hearing and the average range for age groups http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12ring.html
