Help a nerd who doesn't get out much, Pt. 2

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I enjoyed the concert, though it was very loud and the acoustics were terrible.

Twelve hours and a solid sleep later, my ears are still ringing, and I have a physical sensation of cotton lodged into both of them. Is this... should I be worried? I don't know.

A friend who goes to many concerts tells me that, doy, they sell earplugs at the bar, you know, and everyone who isn't dumb wears them. I didn't know this. I don't know anything!! I am a nerd who doesn't get out much.

Seriously though, I'm starting to get a little concerned about this.

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Re: pete townshend

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Also, one night of concert isn't nearly as bad as, say, the damage done to your ears when the T pulls into Harvard.

Not so, I'm afraid. Subways are typically 100 dbA, concerts 110 dbA, or more if you're near the stage/speakers. That's a factor of two difference, and train noise only lasts ten seconds or so, so even a regular rider would take a couple of years to accumulate two hours of exposure to much lower sound levels than one gets in a single concert. Don't take my word for it--the data are just a google away.

I don't like earplugs either--they do seem to kill the high frequencies more than the low, and as my audiogram looks like a ski-slope I miss the high frequencies a lot. But I'd miss hearing at all a lot more.