I was listening to this track (see below) on repeat for about 20 minutes and noticed my ears were hurting afterwards. I wasn't listening at particularly high volumes; the unEQ-ed headphone is around 3db above harman in the 5000-7000Hz range. It is clearly the higher frequencies, not the bass, that causes the piercing feeling of the beats. I was also generally wondering if there's an issue with music that sounds rather silent, but has aggressive meats, causing listeners to dial up the volume to here "the music", exposing themselves to piercing, loud beats. I.e. I was wondering how exactly save hearing can be practiced, when certain frequencies "stick out" as very loud and damage those specific areas in the ear that can be damanged by these frequencies. (I was also wondering if there is enough time for the ear to recuperate inbetween beats. For example, if you're listening to music with continuous X dB, you're supposed to pause after Y minutes for Z minutes. But when beats are loud and piercing at K dB, and last P milliseconds, and Q ms pause inbetween, what does this entail exactly?).
I'm generally interested in the real-life dangers of certain frequencies: Which are the frequencies most likely to cause hearing loss? For example, because one perceives certain frequencies as pleasant still when they are quite loud relative to the rest, of because one perceives them not at all and thus does not react by lowering the volume, or because they are inherently more damaging etc. -- I'm asking because when messing with EQ, I'd like to avoid bossting frequencies that are not a good choice to boost.
Thanks for reading!
I'm generally interested in the real-life dangers of certain frequencies: Which are the frequencies most likely to cause hearing loss? For example, because one perceives certain frequencies as pleasant still when they are quite loud relative to the rest, of because one perceives them not at all and thus does not react by lowering the volume, or because they are inherently more damaging etc. -- I'm asking because when messing with EQ, I'd like to avoid bossting frequencies that are not a good choice to boost.
Thanks for reading!