hearing loss from compressed music

i find the mentioned web page to be totally without merit. it is not science at all, not even correct basic (although complex) biology. perhaps much was lost in the translation.
makes about as much sense as vision and/or brain damage from black and white tv's, or a bad color set.
imho only.

It is interesting to note that there is another health related article hosted on the same website warning us that "it is extremely dangerous that many wide spread fluorescent light tubes emmit a pink tinted light"...

Maybe MP3 files cause "hearing disability". Especially to those who can't hear the difference in the first place. If somebody thinks MP3 sounds fine, maybe they've got existing damage that is undetected.

Black and white TV is fine--- If you're watching a black and white movie.

MP3 is fine--- If you don't know how good it CAN sound.

It's other way around. Hearing loss results in listening to MP3s.

Regardless of the storage format, what comes out of the speakers/headphones is analog (or at least it is down to quantum levels), just as much so from an MP3 as any pristine Sheffield Labs LP. Claiming that "until VERY recently, every sound perceived by human beings since the beginning of time was analog" is misleading.

If there's a hearing loss, it comes from decibels, as mentioned by Calvin1.