Which headphones? That calculation only works on Apple headphones and beats.

What is your “7 day limit” percent at?

Background: Am in NYC and take the subway every day. Couldn’t really hear the music so whenever I’m in the train, I always turn it up to the max volume. FWIW, I use my Airpods. Been doing some research and just realized how harmful this is. I’ve set my phone to limit it to the lowest level at 75 dB … and I can barely hear the music. I mean I hear it but I can’t feel the music: the bass, the instruments, the reverb. Do I just accept this limit and deal with the subway noises forever? Feels like it’s a lose-lose situation either way because I’m sure the subway noises themselves are audibly louder and therefore are causing issues as well

Bro 92 db is crazy loud ,you need a ears check ,dont go over 80-85

P.s buy some iems…

if you want to be deaf keep going

How do you see this?

How many hours a day? 85dB will deafen you over 8 hours.

These are petty arbitrary, maybe you’re fine. Your phone has no clue how loud the earbuds actually are it’s just guessing

Unsure of what this stuff is and means, I did check the health app and apparently for me it’s at 69dB. Is that an okay number? I usually just have my earbuds at half volume, the occasional 75% or max depending on the volume for some videos with low audio. My highest was like 76dB but for other months, it’s mostly in thev60’s and some in the 70’s

How did you get that statistic?

How is this even estimated in the software? What are you listening to and on what?

Edit: I see just airpods. Passive isolation will lower the noise from the subway as well. The subway is very loud itself. Also airpods have a metal mesh that get full of earwax. You can use a very fine tooth brush from the brand Curaprox + Isopropyl alcohol to clean it out. They get extremely quiet as they fill up with wax. You might think they don’t even work.

Good luck becoming Helen Keller

No way to say unless you tell us for on average how long and how often per session at listening at this volume level. Some quick and helpful questions…

Have you ever experienced any ringing in your ears afterwords? If yes, for how long?

Have you ever noticed that your perception of sound is different either hours later or a day or two later?

How often do you listen at these really high volume levels?

How long do you listen at these really high volume levels?

In my youth, I regularly listened to music at these volume levels, yet not every day and for at most only around 3 hours. I did this for three or four years. Now and and decades later I have no hearing issues.

i go through NYC often enough and i almost never had to increase my volume over 60% when using second gen airpods. OP might seriously want to check out the ears and get some noise cancellation headphones

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