no not really. I mean ok if you stare into the sun long enough you’ll go blind and if you pump 300db into your eardrums with an ambulance siren, yes it can do damage. But your eyes and ears don’t ‘wear out’. For the most part they’ll regenerate continually but for instances where the hairs have been destroyed from infection or where genetics break the regeneration process. The studies reenforce the hypothesis that noise and not age are responsible for hearing loss, in spite of the fact that it’s the older patients that have it worse. its a bias they have, finding the conclusion before the rigor of an objective test.
And this matters. Because if you have a limited window to enjoy your hearing, you shouldn’t be listening at 50db, you should turn it up and get the full immersive enjoyment while you are able.
There's hundreds of studies on this, it's absolute fact that noise causes damage, I can't believe you're trying to argue that it doesn't. And literally every study I've found controls for age because that's a super obvious confounding factor
How do you explain that noise studies on violinists found significantly worse hearing loss in the left ear (closer to where the violin is held) vs right ear?
On the fact I can hear perfectly, what are my ears magic?. No it’s not obvious at all. As we age we accumulate toxic chemicals, take injuries, and genetics become corrupted as the telomeres become exhausted. After the average age our ancestors reproduced is passed, anything and everything goes really.
Look at a violinist play, their neck is held at a 45 degree angle, compressing blood vessels going to… the left ear. If you do that 5 hours a day you might just get hearing loss.
See you’re oversimplifying a system with many layers of complexity. But if noise made you deaf and light made you blind, we would have many more deaf and blind people.
And this matters. Because if you have a limited window to enjoy your hearing, you shouldn’t be listening at 50db, you should turn it up and get the full immersive enjoyment while you are able.