prostoalex's Journal: Music player headphones present health risks

New Scientist is reporting that stock earbuds and headphones shipped with popular digital music players can be damaging to one's hearing: "They found that all of the music players produced similar loudness at similar device volume settings, but that different headphones altered this loudness. On average, both earbud and canalphone earphones were 5.5 decibels louder than supra-aural headphones."