From Speed Limits To Volume Limits

News — on September 28, 2009 at 2:56 am | Comment Now

The European Commission or the EC is concerned about the health of the audiophiles because of prolonged usage of music players at high volume. This results in long–term hearing impairment and so the EC has decided it is high time to take some action. The European commission will now release new rules to all the media player manufacturers with a compulsory ‘safe exposure’ mode as a default setting. Although no plans are confirmed, researchers say there are still ways to overcome the limit if the user chooses to do so. This obviously is not good news for people who have to deal with audiophiles blasting music from leaky headsets. The Royal Institute for the Deaf has been campaigning against the use of music players that blast music. However, they prefer to put statutory and health warnings on the excessively loud music players instead of taking any drastic actions. A research conducted by the Royal Institute for the Deaf stated that two thirds of the people turned their volume knobs to more than 89Db which is the level set by world health organization to cause long term hearing impairment.