Output capabilities of personal music players and assessment of preferred listening levels of test subjects: Outlining recommendations for preventing music-induced hearing loss

Laryngoscope

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2549-2556

  Breinbauer, Hayo A ^a   Anabalõn, Jose L ^a   Gutierrez, Daniela ^a   Cárcamo, Rodrigo ^a   Olivares, Carla ^a   Caro, Jorge ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

MP3; Noise induced hearing loss

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY CANAL; DEVICES; HEAD PHONE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUSIC; NOISE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL MUSIC PLAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND PRESSURE;

ADULT; EAR PROTECTIVE DEVICES; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS, NOISE-INDUCED; HEARING TESTS; HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MALE; MP3-PLAYER; MUSIC; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84868001394     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.23596     Document Type: Article

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