Aerith Gainsborough
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Well, to be honest, that's usually what happens if you go against the grain and present results/hypothesis that question well established facts/beliefs.Ask them. I'm sure they would be happy to explain to you. I find it funny how you are willing to believe without evidence the bold assertion on here that high SPL (sub)bass frequencies won't cause hearing damage because our hearing threshold is high there, an inference that is not supported by known auditory physiology, yet you require much higher standards of evidence from an actual audiologist whose position is grounded in this known biology.
Not just in the realm of science.
While your linked study is interesting, I'll be frank enough to tell you that the used stimulus is not indicative of actual stimuli encountered in most music. They should repeat the process and keep the high SPL for a few ms instead of 90s to see what happens when one listens loudly to music. I'd wager that the higher frequencies that accompany the loud bass line, which are often loud by themselves are far more harmful, even if their total SPL is lower than the LF peaks.
A constant high SPL low frequency noise, like in a generator hall etc, is a far cry from what is discussed in any audio forum that revolves around music reproduction.