Listening music for long time by an earphone is injurious for ear or not?
By anurag3786
@anurag3786 (6267)
India
June 7, 2011 8:07am CST
I have read many times that listening music for long time by an earphone is injurious for our ear. But in present time no one care for this and mostly music lover listen music by earphone for long time. I think sometimes they complain about their hearing power that they have in problem for hearing. I think mostly hearing problems comes arising from earphone and many more equipment. But some person says it is only rumors and they don’t believe in this. What do you say this is right or wrong? But I I told about me then I always careful about these types of things because I don’t want to loose my hearing problems.
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6 responses
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
7 Jun 11
I believe that if we don't take a good care of it, we will lose our hearing sense soon~ Before this I am using earphone with insert-style which inserted into the ear canal and I also used to on ear type of headphone. Even if I found those comfortable but it leaves wound to in my ear once the sponge on that earphone/headphone get damaged. Since then I will prefer to listen to the music without using headphone. I just use loudspeaker.
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@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
8 Jun 11
Thanks for the response. Yes if we talk for long time over earphone then we can loose our hearing ability day by day. so now i am careful about this.
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
8 Jun 11
Good to see that you replied to my comment friend. I thought you have no intention to reply back to any comments you receive here. Waiting for more replies from you~
Anyway I don't use earphone for talking because most of the time I use it to listen to the music.
@1anurag1 (3576)
• India
7 Jun 11
Yes first of all any addiction is bad . and if you talk about listening music on earphone for long, it is injurious to ears, that is told by many doctors. So for long hours a person must not listen music on earphone. This is not good for ears. And if you really want to listen music , there are number of instruments available there, you could use.
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@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
I think it is dangerous once you feel you are having a headache after long use of earphone. The bass sound on the earphone might hurt our eardrum and it will bleed. Anyway, do not rely on my explanation as I am not a doctor, but I am myself I know that once you use an earphone for longer hours it is very dangerous to your ear as I have experienced it myself.
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@anurag3786 (6267)
• India
8 Jun 11
Yes you say right the problem of headache started if you listening music long time by earphone.Anyways thanks for the response.
@lady1993 (27225)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
Well, too much of anything is bad. I tried listening to music using earphones for hours and my ears hurt a bit. So you should just use it for a while, then let it rest- it also depends on the volume you're using. Since sme people listen to music very loud.. 
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@xyzm12 (26)
• United States
7 Jun 11
I've heard that too. I listen to loud music everyday through my headphones, but I have never experienced long term hearing loss. I have notice short term loss, but after a while it comes back. I think as long as you listen to music at a level you can handle (not to the point where it hurts) for a short time span and you give your ears time to recover you should be safe.
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@ambivalence (10)
• Philippines
8 Jun 11
Yes, I think that listening to music with a headphone for a long time can be dangerous.
I have read before that there was a limit on how long you can listen to music.
If it gets past that, it would already cause damage to your ears.
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