@Barry098 grew up in a house full of musicians. Mum was in a rock/metal band. My life was surrounded by people playing various loud instruments. I was always tripping over amps and wires - dragged along to rehearsals. I’m an audiophile too. Love, love, love music. Music = life.
I’m the annoying person who sings a line of a song for every sentence someone speaks. I sing and play guitar. Though, I’m much better at singing than playing. Would have gone the musical route for work, but wanted to be a historian instead - very different from each other lol.
Earliest memories I have are of me placing the needle onto the record, listening to the crackle just before the audio starts. I must have been 5/6. I’m 32 now. I was the kid who walked round with a big tape deck, supplying my friends and I with music wherever we went. I’m still the same now. :)
Interesting how we are taught to be afraid of the unknown dangers but in reality it is the commonplace things that surround us that will cause us the most harm. I love music but I hate what it has done to me.
@Barry098 I don’t hate what it has done to me. I hate that we were never warned about loud sounds giving us a permanent noise. I always knew about tinnitus, & thought it was an awful condition which I never wished to have. If I had known I could get it from loud music and headphones, then I most certainly wouldn’t have listen to music as loud as I did. There simply isn’t enough awareness of the damaged sound can do.
@Steph1710 Yea I thought tinnitus was just hearing ringing when in silence. I never learned, even from reading about it, that it was more than that. So I thought I just had to watch out for hearing loss, since I already had ringing in silence.
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