Could EMFs be at play here?
AirPods causing tinnitus?
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#72Poor man’s AirPods: construction earmuffs over old-school wired Apple earbuds. You can keep the actual volume setting quite low, and the suppression of outside noise is powerful. Feels like you’re underwater or you’re Frodo wearing the One Ring.
Barnucles Nerdgasm made a video a while ago where he combined construction earmuffs with headphones and it turned out pretty well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjjgLcAUyRE
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Ummmm Serious question, because I see it so often: what are these fillers meant to achieve?
Shortcut to passive aggressiveness
It wasn’t meant to come across as passive aggressive. When I make a statement that contradicts the original post, I try to be mindful and human. Instead of saying ‘you’re blatantly wrong’ I am hoping to not come across as a rude guy on internet. I’ll probably explore other ways.
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#74A popular YouTube channel recently recommended wearing Airpods with noise cancelling on the London underground because sounds routinely exceed 100 decibels sometimes. Unless my understanding is flawed but the mechanical / energy potential is still reaching your ear drums, cochlear and in turn the hair cells. How would equalising the sound with an opposite sound help reduce the damaged caused here?
Airpods Pro are not exclusively reliant on active noise cancellation to reduce noise alone-- the tips seal in your ear canal and provide passive isolation as well, similar to how earplugs or conventional IEMs (in-ear monitors) work. AirPods are not rated as earplugs and I wouldn't suggest relying on them alone to prevent hearing damage in loud environments (buy real earplugs for that), but they will provide some reduction in the noise that reaches your ears even when turned off.
Also, active noise cancellation does actually cancel noise (it's not some kind of psychological effect making noise "invisible"); sound is a pressure wave and ANC works by moving air in the opposite direction to eliminate or reduce that pressure wave-- the mechanical energy from that sound is not reaching your ear drum if you don't hear it. This doesn't work perfectly, of course (the higher the frequency, the harder it is to eliminate with ANC for a bunch of acoustic and processing-related reasons), but, generally, if you're not hearing it, it's not reaching your eardrums and it's not doing damage.
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#75I wonder if a reduced noise level makes existing tinnitus more noticeable.
Yes it does. I think with wfh initiatives in COVID a lot of people who previously where oblivious to ringing are hearing it.
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#76This is very interesting. I've noticed my tinnitus has seemed to be worse as of late. I exclusively use AirPods Pro. I wouldn't say I listen to loud music, but I'm wondering if the noise cancellation could have something to do with it...
AirPods Pro noise cancellation almost definitely gave me temporary tinnitus after a few months of usage even though I never listened to music that loud. Switched to regular AirPods two years ago and the tinnitus entirely went away.
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#77Is this and airpod thing or noise cancel thing? Bose, Sony etc have had noise cancelling for some models for a long time. I guess release to normies is always a mistake. Next they are comming for the mechanical keyboards.
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#78This is very interesting. I've noticed my tinnitus has seemed to be worse as of late. I exclusively use AirPods Pro. I wouldn't say I listen to loud music, but I'm wondering if the noise cancellation could have something to do with it...
AirPods Pro noise cancellation almost definitely gave me temporary tinnitus after a few months of usage even though I never listened to music that loud. Switched to regular AirPods two years ago and the tinnitus entirely went away.
No way holy shit. Welp. God dammit I was trying so hard to figure out what caused this.
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#79Hearing loss is very serious. You know your body better than anyone else so don't be afraid to be its biggest advocate and protector. Nobody else will. I once had tinnitus for a week after a concert and it was one of the worst weeks of my life, it felt like it would last forever (and for some people, it does). I had pristine, "golden ears" for audio engineering and was afraid about how much I'd be able to recover. I…
I got tinnitus at 15 from an airplane ride maxxing out my headphones. So 15 years ago. Its fine, you get used to it after 2-3 weeks. Yes it never went away. Buckle up butter cup.
t. not american.
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#80This is very interesting. I've noticed my tinnitus has seemed to be worse as of late. I exclusively use AirPods Pro. I wouldn't say I listen to loud music, but I'm wondering if the noise cancellation could have something to do with it...
I have had tinnitus for years, and have never felt comfortable with noise cancelling headphones. Purely anecdotal, of course, and even regular headphones are uncomfortable after awhile, but active noise cancellation is unbearable for me
I wonder how much of this is causing tinnitus, vs the total silence revealing (or intensifying) tinnitus