[kj] OT: MAKE IT STOP!

[Alexander Smith]

Cheers, Carl -- and everyone else who has responded. As I like to  
remind myself, there are people in this world with *real* problems,  
and I happily consider myself not to be among them, but this a  
FUCKING BOTHER to put it mildly, not least for the nagging suspicion  
that I brought it on myself out of sheer stupidity.

Alex in NYC


On Aug 8, 2006, at 9:04 PM, CEPLASTER at aol.com wrote:

> Dear Alex,
>
>         Very sorry to hear about the tinnitus.   By all rights I  
> should have it but don't.  I have heard that certain things  
> aggravate the condition (possibly caffeine), but you definitely  
> have to be careful with that ipod.  that sound going straight into  
> your eardrums with no dispersion or diffusion or whatever you want  
> to call it is definitely unhealthy.  I am hearing more and more  
> news items concerning younger kids developing hearing issues as a  
> result of ipod abuse.
>          Even Pete Townsend, who is kind of a poster person for  
> tinnitus, has said that he thinks the thing that did his ears in  
> wasn't all the loud gigs as much as it was going home shitfaced  
> after the gigs,  and working on his demos with the head phones  
> cranked up.
>          Oh yeah,   I think I remember hearing that alcohol slows  
> down the ears ability to shut down and protect itself when being  
> subjected to loud volume.   Back in the 80's and early 90's there  
> was a music biz term called a "cocaine mix",  which applied to  
> records that were abnormally bright and trebly sounding, due to the  
> fact that the mix engineer was blowing rails and his sensistivity  
> to high end was being dulled out (kinda like the sound of Fire  
> Dances compared to the sound of Hosannas.)  fire Dances sounds like  
> coke, Hosannas sounds like booze (or maybe robitussin.)
>            Anyway, I'll do some asking around and see if I can find  
> any info for you.  Take care, Carl P.
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