Re:What I Know About Being Sick at Work (2018)
by wool_gather on Sunday July 21, 2019 @02:01PM
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Right, it's not dangerous to your hearing at appropriate levels. Although as any audio engineer will tell you, having the sound source that close to your ears for a long time can be a bit psychologically tiring. It's still best to take a break every so often.
Headphones do not inherently damage hearing. What's damaging, is listening to them at a high volume. This might occur if you're in a noisy environment, and use headphones with poor isolation, e.g. airpods, which need to overpower the ambient noise.
You can absolutely listen to headphones all day, in a quiet environment or if they provide good isolation.