MP3 Players Too Loud? EU Acts
The European Union commission wants a set limit on the maximum volume on all MP4 & MP3 players which are sold within the EU. This will apply to the iPod by Apple
The EU proposals follow after the latest report published in 2009 that highlighted that up to 10 million citizens in the EU are in danger of permanent hearing loss as a result of listening to loud music for long periods of time
Experts at the EU Commission want the default maximum volume to be at 85 decibels. However users would be able to override this set limit and boost the volume to a maximum limit of 100 decibels.
Last month, a two-month consultation of all EU standardization committees started on these volume limit proposals. The commission hopes that a final agreement could be reached within 12 weeks
Disturbing results were found at testing facilities where various MP3 / MP4 players were examined by researchers. A number of of the players had a maximum volume level of 120 decibels, that’s the same as an airplane taking off. This is the issue that the EU hopes to resolve, as at the moment no set safety default volume level applies.
However MP3 player manufacturers have to by law, include information about risks in their instruction manuals. For all practical purposes though, nobody reads these, and it doesn’t actually stop the consumer from increasing the volume to maximum. What’s more,a study has indicated that deafness amongst younger people is increasing as a direct result of the use of listing to loud music on earphones.
MP3 players are perceived as being more dangerous than CD players or the ‘Walkman’ because they can store many hours of music and have a long battery life, which means that users can listen to them continuously for long periods without a break. Often while driving when the volume is very height to drown out outside noise. Over time the resulting injury to hearing can be similar that seen in previous years caused by industrial noise.
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