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Aussie Government to Warn "Turn Your iPod Down"

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005 at 2:40 PM - by

The Australian government is expected to release a report recommending that iPod and other digital media device users turn the volume down, according to a report from the Sydney Morning Herald. The research was conducted by Australia's National Acoustic Laboratories, and will warn of increasing instances of tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and general hearing loss from listening to the devices with the volume too high.

"Listening to music at high sound levels for hours a day means that thousands of Australia's younger people are on a one-way street towards tinnitus and loss of hearing in later life," Julie Bishop, Minister for Ageing for the Aussie government, told the Herald.

She continued, "The risk of hearing damage would be reduced significantly if people limited their listening at high volume to less than an hour a day. But the safest thing is to simply turn it down. If the music is too loud for people to converse with you, it is loud enough to cause hearing loss."

The results of the study are to be released on Thursday, August 18th.

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Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:28 pm

What !

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Wed Aug 17, 2005 6:28 pm

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Rainy Day said:

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Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:06 pm

Eh, whadda say?

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Al Swearengen said:

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Wed Aug 17, 2005 11:46 pm

Well they are correct. Furthermore it is more than a earphones problem, any loud noise over time will affect the hearing. These people bumping bass in their cars are in for some hearing problems later on.

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