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Portable Mp3 Player Safety

Summary by Cristopher Fowers, edited by Ferdinand Rinaldy

Portable players provide relaxation, entertainment and motivation; however, there are some safety guidelines to follow when listening to a portable mp3 player:

Overexposing our ears to loud music can cause permanent hearing loss. This number is projected to rise because of the number of teens who listen to loud music.

Doctors say sound with levels below 70 decibels (dBA) pose no risk of hearing loss, whereas 85 dBA or higher, with exposure to eight or more hours a day, pose a significant risk of permanent hearing loss.

A good rule of thumb while listening to music-if you can’t hear someone speaking in a normal voice, the music is too loud.

Don’t wear headphones when running or biking near traffic.

Loud music can easily drown out an approaching car, an angry dog or a warning beep from a horn.

We can take precautions to avoid a potentially dangerous situation: While running or biking on a road, turn the music down so you can hear traffic and stay alert to your surroundings. Women should be especially careful about listening to loud music in isolated areas, like parking lots and alleyways. The music can be distracting and hinder your hearing. Most importantly use common sense when listening to a portable mp3 player.

Portable Digital Audio MP3 Players – Are The New Technologies Better?

Summary by Robert Bacal

Finally, there’s the older technology — cd players that use regular cd disks for storage, and can play both MP3 and regular audio disks.

1) Price: Since CD based MP3 players have been around a while, the prices have dropped significantly even on high quality units. Instead of paying several hundred dollars for an IPod, other hard drive based player, or a memory based on, a CD based player can be purchased for $40-$50.

2) Flexibility: CD based players’ play regular CD’s, so store-bought music and audio books can simply be popped in, and ready to go. You can’t play store-bought music on hard drive or memory based players.

Since CD based systems use permanent storage on CD (or erasable on CD-RW), there is no “temporary storage” involved.

3) Simplicity: CD based players are far simpler to use. There’s no software, or transferring files from one computer to your player. CD based players don’t require anything besides a playable CD. We recommend portable CD players from Panasonic (our favorite), and Sony, for their robustness and quality.

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