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saw this on my yahoo page thought you guys/gals might have something to say on the matter

Talk about deceptive journalism

Note how all the statistics are about "loud music", not "loud music at festivals". They're trying to make it look as if these figures apply to festivals because they surveyed people while at festivals.

Read this for more on how the media distort statistics.

the poll was carried out by talking to festival goers but they were not asking questions about festivals alone - it concerned all loud music - my opinion is that loud music at clubs, headphones, and home stereos are more likely to cause permanent damage to hearing than staniding at the barrier at a festival to see your favourite band. Efestivals has done a new piece on this recently.

yada yada.

as long as I don't go deaf, I'm ney fussed

Eh?

say it again?

Couldn't care less. It all goes sooner or later.

the only way you will lose hearing through gig going is very very excessive gig going due to fact basically your ear has loads of little hairs to filter noise when they get exposed to lots of noise they fall down and take a while to stand back up hence why you get that whistling noise after a really loud gig. Thing is like a wire if these hairs get constantly bent they eventually give way and hearing goes but it takes alot to make you go deaf from gigs . okay seein my bloody valentine each night would f**k you but otherwise you will all be fine

I have 2 perforated ear drums and went to the Glasgow Hearing Centre a couple of years ago for them to have a look, I assumed it was from years of being a bedroom DJ, going to gigs and clubbing but the told me you cant perforate an ear drum from music, it was most likely delayed injuries from my rugby days.

What they did say though is that the issue with high sound levels is the low frequency and really high frequency tones that cause the ringing and dullness. Once you experience ringing in your ears its irreversible damage, although ithe ringing goes away the damage is done. It is highly likely I will get tinitis (constant ringing) in my ear when im older.

So, my advice to anyone who is a bit fearful of their hearing when older, get a decent pair of moulded ear plugs, you can get them for about 100squid, and they dont distort the noise or mean you cant hear it really, they just cut out the dangerous frequencys associated with loud music at gigs.

Any gig venue worth their salt these days though are using the Funktion 1 sound system which is the most genius system invented to date, it also is alot less harsh in terms of dangerous frequency output and given its clarity doesnt have to be so loud. So theres hope for us yet

Hmm its all worth it i say, So heck if it damages hearing a little bit, its all so damn worth it!. Wouldn't change anything for the world!.

Thats the way, who cares if we're all deaf, blind and limbless. Rock n roll man!!!!!

The only thing that hurt my ears at T this year was Battles whilst waiting for Seasick Steve to come on - what a load of mince!