[TenTec] March of the Headphones

[Reg Unsworth]

"won't get fooled again" ??

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw at verizon.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] March of the Headphones


> One last comment on headphones...
> ----------------------------------
> 01/04/2006  07:45:27 EST Pete Townshend Warns IPod Users
>
> LONDON (AP) - Guitarist Pete Townshend has warned iPod users that they
could
> end up with hearing problems as bad as his own if they don't turn down the
> volume of the music they are listening to on earphones.
>
> Townshend, 60, guitarist in the 60s band The Who, said his hearing was
> irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones and that he now
is
> forced to take 36-hour breaks between recording sessions to allow his ears
> to recover.
>
> "I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes
> its principal components deaf," he said on his Web site. "Hearing loss is
a
> terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. If you use an iPod or
anything
> like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK ... But my intuition tells
me
> there is terrible trouble ahead."
>
> Referring to the increasingly popular practice of downloading music from
the
> Internet, Townshend said: "The downside may be that on our computers - for
> privacy, for respect to family and co-workers, and for convenience - we
use
> earphones at almost every stage of interaction with sound."
>
> The Who rock group was famous for its earsplitting live performances, but
> Townshend said his problem was caused by using earphones in the recording
> studio.
>
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>
> 73, ron wn3vaw
>
>
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