Everyone remembersthat storyabout how a crowd of people were litigate Apple for potential iPod - inducedhearing loss , even though they had n’t lost any auditory modality . It got shot down last year , appealed , and today , bolt down for good . CRANK IT .
https://gizmodo.com/ipod-too-loud-sue-em-152239
The pillowcase was a bit peculiar from the startle , in that it hinged on the potential for hearing departure , rather than actual , inflict hearing red . It was also odd beacuse iPods , which are obviously capable of pump out about 125dB of speech sound through a pair of those crappy white earbuds , already have a bulk - bound function . This is in gain to normal volume controls , which on the face of it do n’t provide enough direction to user to prevent them from techno - blasting their eardrums into mucousy , indifferent meat - nugget . The Ninth Circuit Court of Appealsuphelda lower courtroom ’s decisiveness from last year that iPod could be , and mostly are , used safely , and dismissed the lawsuit .
But as my gramps always used to say , at the center of every frivolous grade action engineering science case , there lies a grain of truth : iPods and iPhones , if you turn them up too meretricious , can damage your auditory modality . So do n’t , k ? [ Ars Technica ]
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