As someone who has had tinnitus since attending a 1982 Bruce Springsteen concert (10th row center), I totally agree with Nonoise's comments. Our hearing is actually quite delicate. If these fools that are vibrating the windows of their Escalade or Civic knew what it would be like to have a lifetime of noise in their ears that's louder than the football game on TV, or louder than the music coming out of your stereo, they might change their ways. But probably not.
There are a lot of activities, in addition to concerts, that can do permanent damage to your hearing. I ride motorcycles, and one of the mags published an article a while back about the permanent damage to the auditory nerve that can take place from wind noise at highway speed. The information presented by Learsfool makes it pretty easy to see why it doesn't take that long to for the damage to be irreversible. I always wear ear plugs under my helmet, but still think I'm getting too much exposure to wind noise. Same when I go shooting- ear plugs AND 30 db hearing protectors over them.
The time to save your hearing is before you've done any damage, because as several doctors have told me, there's almost nothing they can do for you once you've got tinnitus. Thanks for posting this information.
There are a lot of activities, in addition to concerts, that can do permanent damage to your hearing. I ride motorcycles, and one of the mags published an article a while back about the permanent damage to the auditory nerve that can take place from wind noise at highway speed. The information presented by Learsfool makes it pretty easy to see why it doesn't take that long to for the damage to be irreversible. I always wear ear plugs under my helmet, but still think I'm getting too much exposure to wind noise. Same when I go shooting- ear plugs AND 30 db hearing protectors over them.
The time to save your hearing is before you've done any damage, because as several doctors have told me, there's almost nothing they can do for you once you've got tinnitus. Thanks for posting this information.