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Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people (www.bbc.com)

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

Me, wearing my noise-cancelling headphones for 10+ hours a day ....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have my noise cancelling airpods pro, but never use ANC because it has that white noise sound I don't like. It's basically blasting more noise in your earhole to drown out/cancel out the noise around you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, ANC quality can vary a lot and generally it's even worse for earbuds.

I have a pair of Bose QC Ultra headphones which have amazing ANC.

A few month back there was a constuction site across the street. At one point I felt my desk vibrating, so I took of my headphones ... only then did I realised they were using a jackhammer.