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New Test Shows If Loud Music is Damaging Your Hearing

Researchers are concerned that headphones are turning a generation of people prematurely deaf.  When you funnel that kind of volume directly into your ears for hours on end, you’re going to do some serious damage.

British scientists say that one in six adults have some kind of hearing loss and they’d like to determine how much of that is due to loud music.

To figure that out, they’ve set up an experiment that you can take yourself.

More at The Daily Mail.

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  • Researchers are really concerned that headphones are turning a generation of people prematurely deaf

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