Is someone in Brussels dictating how loud I want to hear

[xerxes]

Cool, thanks, I may look into these at a later date

There was a pretty neet looking thing reviewed recently here: http://www.trustedreviews.com/mp3/review/2010/08/28/FiiO-E7/p1

There are also a great many available as kits if you're handy with a soldering iron. Most are a pretty easy "electronics by mumbers" type of thing, so it's just a case of assembling the components onto the PCB in the right place. Here's one I built a while back along with some other stuff: http://www.tdsf.co.uk/Audio/Corda.shtml

The Pimeta amp sounds good and you can run it from batteries, so there's no messing about with nasty mains voltage: http://tangentsoft.net/audio/

More ideas here: http://rockgrotto.proboards.com/index.cgi?

 

[Harryburgundy]

http://www.europeanlawmonitor.org/News/Latest-EU-News/European-Commission-gathers-experts-to-tackle-the-health-risks-from-personal-music-players.html

'A European safety standard already exists restricting the noise level of personal music players to 100 dB'

Bl**dy nanny state! But then again we should ban the proliferation of compensation claims etc.

The World's going mad!

 

[hamster]

Depends on whether you find that you have hearing loss from your job, like my dad. He cannot hear any difference between a telephone line and normal conversation.

I've worked with too many ex-miners to feel against industrial injury compensation.

The legal work limit is 85dB(A), some way below the 100dB for headphones, so I suspect that the lawmakers have got it fairly right in that you still have the opportunity to damage your hearing if you want to.

 

[IDB1]

Depends on whether you find that you have hearing loss from your job, like my dad. He cannot hear any difference between a telephone line and normal conversation..

My first 2 jobs gave me tinnitus and it's crap.. if I wear headphones now I have to crank them up just to drown out the screaming in my ears

 

[Harryburgundy]

Depends on whether you find that you have hearing loss from your job, like my dad. He cannot hear any difference between a telephone line and normal conversation.

I've worked with too many ex-miners to feel against industrial injury compensation.

The legal work limit is 85dB(A), some way below the 100dB for headphones, so I suspect that the lawmakers have got it fairly right in that you still have the opportunity to damage your hearing if you want to.

Fair point well made...but these are retail consumer items where I feel I am able to make my own decisions.
Industrial/Vocational laws protecting employees etc are of course essential.

 

[rosstheboss]

Depends on whether you find that you have hearing loss from your job, like my dad. He cannot hear any difference between a telephone line and normal conversation.

I've worked with too many ex-miners to feel against industrial injury compensation.

The legal work limit is 85dB(A), some way below the 100dB for headphones, so I suspect that the lawmakers have got it fairly right in that you still have the opportunity to damage your hearing if you want to.

Fair point well made...but these are retail consumer items where I feel I am able to make my own decisions.
Industrial/Vocational laws protecting employees etc are of course essential.

Also remember a worker may well be exposed to those noise levels all day every day, as opposed to a few hours here and there, like the time limits that were put on power tools to prevent 'vibration white finger'