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I have various questions regarding music; I don't really know how to organize the questions so excuse the (non)organization.
I have lots of music I want to listen to while I study and the boombox (I think it is) is pretty bad (makes background noise when it's on unlike computer). What's the best way to set up music without a computer?
Also, is there a definitive answer to whether hearing loss comes from prolonged in-ear headphones? Circumaural? General "loud" music?
Does anyone have a good forum for newbie to advanced everything about audio and music (like SC->TL)?
If anyone is good with computer and music formats I have some questions regarding FLAC, conversion, etc so if you could can you guys leave a message and I'll pm?
I have no idea why I'm writing somewhat incoherently right now...
Thanks
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On April 18 2009 11:38 Wala.Revolution wrote:
I have various questions regarding music; I don't really know how to organize the questions so excuse the (non)organization.
I have lots of music I want to listen to while I study and the boombox (I think it is) is pretty bad (makes background noise when it's on unlike computer). What's the best way to set up music without a computer? ipod or other mp3 player
Also, is there a definitive answer to whether hearing loss comes from prolonged in-ear headphones? Circumaural? General "loud" music? yes
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Converting a low quality audio file into flac will do nothing but pick up extraneous noises, and make the file size bigger. Think about getting a small image and making it bigger, and saving it as the bigger image. The quality isn't any better (assuming you resize the big image to its original size), but it will just take up more space. What I personally do is just plug it into a speaker, and play it as I use the computer. If you are planning on using a boom-box like object (external speakers, basically), then I'd suggest getting at least decent quality ones.
Personally, I feel that prolonged use of in-ear headphones just gets uncomfortable after a while, but that's just me. I've never heard anything about hearing loss, but you'll have to take that question to someone else.
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In-ear headphones are supposedly terrible for your hearing. Get a set of good over-the-ear noise-canceling DJ style headphones for the best possible sound quality on the go. I personally can't stand in-ear ones (they're uncomfortable), but they're so damn small and convenient, I can't help it...
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On April 18 2009 13:32 PH wrote:
In-ear headphones are supposedly terrible for your hearing. Get a set of good over-the-ear noise-canceling DJ style headphones for the best possible sound quality on the go. I personally can't stand in-ear ones (they're uncomfortable), but they're so damn small and convenient, I can't help it...
U sir have a very good point. I have some hearing that I can control at times if I need to. Some people have a different way of listening to shit though. I would go with this advice to actually "hear" your music.
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Any form of listening (IEM, Full-size, etc.) can be damaging to your years, it just depends on how loud your play your music. I currently use IEM's (Phonak PFE's) and they're very comfortable, and barely notice their presence.
The easiest way to play music apart from your computer is some sort of PMP, like an iPod. I wouldn't really worry about music formats. I believe the standard mp3 files are now 192kps, which is sufficient enough unless you can't stand not using the best of the best.
If quality is really important to you, you can ask around http://www.head-fi.org/forums/. But most likely a simple setup will suffice.
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re: hearing loss
IEMs have a good amount of noise isolation. This is a really big deal, because it is the background noise that determines how loud you turn up your music. This means that you can listen to your IEMs at roughly the same volume on the bus/subway as you would at home for example. Anyways, the type of sound transducer does not matter... it is the actual volume of the sound at your eardrums that matters. Just don't be stupid and have your phones turned up so loud people around you are complaining. You can buy a radio shack sound level meter if you're really worried about it, to check your listening levels.
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On April 18 2009 13:32 PH wrote:
In-ear headphones are supposedly terrible for your hearing. Get a set of good over-the-ear noise-canceling DJ style headphones for the best possible sound quality on the go. I personally can't stand in-ear ones (they're uncomfortable), but they're so damn small and convenient, I can't help it...
Active noise cancellation distorts the music. I prefer either passive sound isolation (big fancy words for "in-ear headphones") or closed circumaural headphones. Both designs generally have good outside noise attenuation, meaning you can play your music at a softer level, which really helps with the whole hearing-loss thing.
Think about it this way: Listen to all the sounds around you where you normally listen to music. For some people (like me) that might include bus rides or downtown or places like that. They're generally pretty loud places. The standard iPod headphones (just using them as an example, this is true for many other headphones as well) don't attenuate sound very well, if at all. This basically means you have to play your music so loud that it drowns out the sound around you just so you can hear your music. That's pretty loud, and that's where a lot of the fuss about hearing loss comes into play.
Also, if you have any questions regarding format conversions or anything else regarding that, feel free to shoot me a PM. I take my music very seriously. 
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