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gregk · 09-15-08, 05:55

I am glad to see some of us are wearing hearing protection! I still see lots of the 20hr+ job write up pictures with rotaries in their hands and no hearing protection on.

As others have said, using headphones can make things worse than using no hearing protection. Unless you are using headphones that seal out external sounds and then listen at lower levels, you are doing more harm than good. Put on a sound system/radio in the garage, then put on your earplugs. You would still hear the music, but it just reduced in volume as is all your equipment.

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gregk Registered User gregk is offline Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: London,Ontario,Canada Posts: 70	Re: Am I the only one to wear hearing protection? I am glad to see some of us are wearing hearing protection! I still see lots of the 20hr+ job write up pictures with rotaries in their hands and no hearing protection on. As others have said, using headphones can make things worse than using no hearing protection. Unless you are using headphones that seal out external sounds and then listen at lower levels, you are doing more harm than good. Put on a sound system/radio in the garage, then put on your earplugs. You would still hear the music, but it just reduced in volume as is all your equipment.