Listen Up, Expose the Volume Danger: Five Shocking Ways Your Ear Buds Might be Stealing Your Hearing

Low-Quality Gear, High-Quality Risks

We've seen the perils that high volume and long duration pose on our hearing health. Let's now delve into the hardware aspect. The quality of your earbuds matters! Lower-quality earbuds are often incapable of efficiently blocking out external noise, often leading to increased volume levels.

Higher-quality earbuds typically come with noise-cancellation features, reducing your tendency to turn up the volume. Multiples studies have shown that masking environmental sounds by turning up the volume leads to an indirect exposure to danger - higher sound levels, for longer durations.