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I am an audio engineer by for a living, and I have been doing 150+db for a long time, and my hearing is fine. My low end might be very very slightly effected, it could also be that I am just used to getting ear raped by bass.

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well put lol. did cadence at least rape you slow and steady or was it one of those violent anry ones?

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Listening to a half hour of rock hurts my ears way more than a half hour of rap at the same level.

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Listening to a half hour of rock hurts my ears way more than a half hour of rap at the same level.

x2... i found that metal leaves my ears ringing pretty good.....

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how the hell do they test it that specifically

thre is a hearing app on the ipod touch that is pretty detailed. i had better hearing than my future wife and she always says im deaff. well now i pick on her all the time. i have some mild hearing loss but cant remember what hz thinking on top of my head

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Listening to a half hour of rock hurts my ears way more than a half hour of rap at the same level.
x2... i found that metal leaves my ears ringing pretty good.....

true - i made a post about this the other day. My mids and highs have always been "sufficient" compared to my subs (at best). Now, they are out of this world - but now i can easily get my ears ringing and have established a new "normal" level (on the deck 35 out of 62) not to go past for very long. This is X2 on heavy metal - i too find that rap music with heavy bass doesnt hurt my ears nearly as much as rock does for the same amount of time.

i want to get tested just to see but as far as i know im good.....i hear things that other people in my house ignore because they didnt hear it (someone at the door, my phone ringing in the garage while im 3 bedrooms away, the cat meowing outside etc). If i have any damage, its from loud music in general and not really from 156+db of bass that i am usually exposed to.

BUT lets not be stupid here, it does depend how long you do it for. If you do a lot of driving, like for a living (ie a trucker) even the sound of the wind past your LEFT ear for years on end will take its toll.

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lol good point but i am only running four twelves and two amps i dont think i can loos my hearing from the woofers i have no but the future will change. well any ways 15 minutes of heavy metal rock huts my ears at half way volume

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umm idk but i say "what"? a lot lol

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