I'll second Rick's comments, my brother-in-law is an ENT as well and I've
had this conversation many times because of radio, a shooting hobby and I
mow/trim my own lawn. I use hearing protection for the latter two
activities everytime, no matter what. I was also told that the thumping we
here in the kids cars these days is also attributing to hearing loss at the
low end of our hearing spectrum (treble isn't the only thing that can hurt
an ear)! He's been treating hearing loss for folks in their late 20's
these days!!
73,
Eric
At 06:58 PM 5/28/2002 -0400, Rick Tyler wrote:
>Okay . . . just got off the phone with an otolaryngologist (ear nose and
>throat doctor to the rest of us) and was grilling him about communications
>headphones vs hi-fi stereo headphones (I tune his piano, so I was able to
>call him, for free!!! He'll probably expect a free tuning next time) He
>asked all about the types of sounds and filters and so on. And here's his
>response:
>
>"Tell your friends that the communications headphones sound like a good idea
>to help cut down the high frequency white noise sound you hear on a radio.
>HOWEVER: Tell them that if they mow their lawns, use chainsaws or power
>tools regularly, but especially if they USE LEAF BLOWERS without hearing
>protection, then it's probably too late anyway so they might as well go
>ahead and use whatever they've been using, as they might need the extra
>frequency response the hi-fi headphones provide just to hear anything at
>all."
>
>He went on a bit about leaf blowers, as that seems to be the biggest new
>problem causing hearing loss.
>
>So I'll leave it up to you folks to do your own research and make your own
>decisions.
>
>And I guess this has gone on about long enough and has little to do with Ten
>Tec . . . been interesting, though.
>
>73 de Rick, WQ8Q
>
>
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R. Eric Sluder
W5WLW
North Texas, USA
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