IMO: Alex:
the author only mentions cd audio as harmful in his personal case of when he falls asleep listening to music and waking up with tinnitus. He also seems to being basing part of his theory on this case, which IMO is not a very scientific way of proving it. AFAIK cd quality audio is not (heavily) datareduced so the authours theory may not apply. Listening to music while asleep may cause other problems, like nightmares though! Marc: although reading too many magazines may cause problems (i for one wear glasses cuz i read too much under my covers with a flashlight as a kid), i think that that is caused to insufficient lighting, poor print etc rather than the intrinsic qualities of the print per se, whereas the data reduction in digital audio is sole cause of neuroacustic damage to the ear (in this case.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Langsman, Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Fabrizio Nahum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 4:36 PM Subject: Re: (313) the risks of datareduced music > an interesting read, however there is one part the author did not go into > detail about very much that i wouldlike to find out more about... > > is it damaging to sleep with music on???? i usually put a cd on as i go to > sleep so it would last about an hour... am i damaging my hearing (its not > very loud!)?! > > ab > > > > > Hi gang, > > > i think this can be of interest to most of you - it is an > > > article that explains the neuroacustic damage one > > > (potentially?) suffers form listening to datareduced music > > > ie. mp3 and other digital audio > > > > > > her is the link: > > > http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/Logologie/MP3-Ge > > fahr/MP3-risk. > > html > > > > have a nice weekend, > > fab > >
