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Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people (www.bbc.com)
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[–] remon@ani.social 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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 ....

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] remon@ani.social 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Similar story here, Bose QC whilst the house next door was (basically) being demolished... I just found the headphones ate batteries faster.

I sometimes find I'm just working with the headphones on and whatever I was listening to had stopped ages ago.

by blocking everyday sounds such as cars beeping, there is a possibility the brain can "forget" to filter out the noise.

Also growing up in the quiet countryside, I can say that you do not “forget” to hear sounds like cars... it's definitely the everyday background noise that's the problem.