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health-hack.com — Northwestern University audiologist Dean Garstecki advises that to keep “ear-healthy” people using iPods or other portable listening devices with headphones should follow the “60 percent, 60 minute” rule.

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  • Animal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Kind of vague. Some things I listen to at "50%" and others I have to listen at higher or lower volume all depending on the source recording volume.
  • macman81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I agree w/ SpacePirate. Noise cancellation really counts. Go Etymotic!!!
  • SpacePirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've found a good pair of headphones helps quite a bit. For the most part, you raise the volume to tune everything else out; with some good noise-suppressing headphones, 60 percent is actually feasible. The iPod earbuds? Not so much.

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