hearing loss from compressed music

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.

This leads me to 4 questions:

1-Would upsampling mp3 media prevent "tin ear" and "tinitus"?

2-Would upsampling regular cd media improve hearing?

3-Does SACD and DVD-A improve hearing?

4-Does vinyl degrade hearing as well?

Move over asbestos. Let the class action suits begin!