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Is a sound level of 105 decibels for a few seconds enough to rupture a person's eardrum? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In 2022, a Texas family filed a lawsuit against Apple for damaging their son's hearing after an Amber Alert went off while he was wearing Airpods. According to Google, the maximum volume of phone headphones is around 105 decibels. The family are claiming that the son now requires hearing aids after his eardrum ruptured.

Is this plausible?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, thanks for the correction. I seem to have misunderstood the injury when I got it described to me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No worries! From your comments, you seem to be a bit of an audiophile. Just watch out, because audiophile forums are FULL of authoritative sounding BS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Haha, uh oh, I will try to not take offence. I'm in no way an audiophile, though I do have a nice stereo system for listening to music rather than listening to the equipment. I did venture into doing sound based arts and installations and stuff when I was younger though so I do have some insights of how sound works. It was a "colleague" l knew back then that had the injury mentioned from an incident in a sound studio. If memory serves me right it was an accidental digital feedback loop that hit the ears like a brick wall and despite it was less than a second it was enough to cause permanent damage.