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[Neonivek]

I should state that the problem with turning music up to emphasise the music is that you eventually get used to that level and bring it up more.

Until eventually you get those people who listen to headsets where EVERYONE AROUND THEM CAN HEAR THE MUSIC!

That isn't healthy.

So a trick I used to use is to put the music very low to get used to that. Then put it up a bit louder. It works very well.

[Duke 2.0]

Until eventually you get those people who listen to headsets where EVERYONE AROUND THEM CAN HEAR THE MUSIC!

Headsets are funny things. Some can have the volume of a rock concert behind a jet taking off and not have a whisper escape to the people around them. Others are basically speakers next to your ears.
 My sisters constantly complain that I have the headset volume up too loud and I'll damage my ears.
 I can't even hear the beat.

 I generally have a set level on my audio devices which I set as the norm. I don't know how relatively loud it is in comparison to things that will damage your hearing, but despite the thin walls of my house people have not complained. I suppose so long as I always stay around that level I should be good.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Until eventually you get those people who listen to headsets where EVERYONE AROUND THEM CAN HEAR THE MUSIC!

Headsets are funny things. Some can have the volume of a rock concert behind a jet taking off and not have a whisper escape to the people around them. Others are basically speakers next to your ears.
 My sisters constantly complain that I have the headset volume up too loud and I'll damage my ears.
 I can't even hear the beat.

 I generally have a set level on my audio devices which I set as the norm. I don't know how relatively loud it is in comparison to things that will damage your hearing, but despite the thin walls of my house people have not complained. I suppose so long as I always stay around that level I should be good.

I just like to play it loud. Nothing to do with hearing loss, which isn't enough to affect me too much, but being able to feel the floor shake as the music blasts out is the best feeling in the world.

[Eidalac]

well, in the hearing-test, they sends sounds through my ears of different frequencies, starting at -10 decibel (wtf, how does that even work), and then increasing by 10, until I heared the sound ever so slightly.

In short, 0 DB is the baseline.  -10 would be 1/10 the volume of this, 10 DB is 10 x the baseline (I may have the ratios wrong, but you get the idea).

A normal test would start at 0DB, but if they suspected an issue, they started at a lower-than-baseline level, probably to ensure they didn't have a bad reference point that was messing up your results.

[Akroma]

Until eventually you get those people who listen to headsets where EVERYONE AROUND THEM CAN HEAR THE MUSIC!

Headsets are funny things. Some can have the volume of a rock concert behind a jet taking off and not have a whisper escape to the people around them. Others are basically speakers next to your ears.
 My sisters constantly complain that I have the headset volume up too loud and I'll damage my ears.
 I can't even hear the beat.

 I generally have a set level on my audio devices which I set as the norm. I don't know how relatively loud it is in comparison to things that will damage your hearing, but despite the thin walls of my house people have not complained. I suppose so long as I always stay around that level I should be good.

I just like to play it loud. Nothing to do with hearing loss, which isn't enough to affect me too much, but being able to feel the floor shake as the music blasts out is the best feeling in the world.

sadly, your inner ear is shaking like that too

hearing loss incoming

[Akroma]

it's funny how my hearing appears to have changed ever since I got the news.

previously, I hardly ever noticed, but now I am turning into some sort of hypochondric, noticing un-heared things wherever I go. it's spooky

[Keiseth]

Aww, that's a real bummer. I value my hearing immensely, though I'm almost positive it's getting worse. And god, my eyesight. 20/50 in one eye, 20/40 in the other. The internet is ruining my senses. Except smell! We'll all be deaf and blind but we'll navigate by the miasma.

Hrm. On the bright side, we will all continue to enjoy the comedic stylings of BRIAN BLESSED!

[A_Fey_Dwarf]

Sadly I also suffer from hearing loss, I'm always having to ask people to repeat themselves which ain't so bad. It is the problem of talking overly loud, where you thinj you are talking at a normal level and are actually quite a bit louder than everyone else. Now that gets embarrassing.

My hearing loss was caused by being too close to a fire works explosion and it rupturing my ear drums. I now have tinnitus, a constant high pitched ringing. Though that may seem very annoying (and it was at first), it becomes normal after a while and hearing the high pitched ringing becomes natural. I can now only hear the ringing when every thing is quiet and I'm listening intensely for it.

[Keiseth]

I always hear ringing when I'm trying to sleep. My parents always liked fireworks... hm... But that really sucks. Not hearing isn't as bad as hearing a truckhorn on loop, definitely. (Good thing it's not nearly that bad for you!)

[Rashilul]

I got an ear infection when I was young and lost some hearing in my right ear that way. The imbalance is feckin' annoying when using headphones and I frequently get ringing that drowns everything out in it.

I guess I'm pretty well protected against hearing loss because I don't listen to much music and don't like loud noises.

[Rilder]

I've been told a few times that I have good hearing which is nice, though I have the feeling that all the music I'm listening to lately is about to change that. 

[JoshuaFH]

I'm sorry to hear of this problem of yours Akroma, I never knew...

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

_{/dumb joke}

[eerr]

I lost hearing to an infection in my left ear a long time ago. I had several operations but they never improved my hearing.

[Micro102]

Ah, im taking American sign language so if you go deaf, either learn sign language, or get a cochlear implant. A cochlear implant is a surgery where they put in a new inner ear or something like that. And you have this peice that is magnetic that you can take off your ear to become deaf again.

[Akroma]

I know what a cochlear implant is, I have friends who have that. Also, I am already semi-fluent in DGS (german sign language).

and lastly, I doubt that just listening to loud music will actually make me go full-deaf