When hearing is worsened due to illness, does listening to loud music that doesn’t sound loud at the time still cause damage?

Question

When hearing is worsened due to illness, does listening to loud music that doesn’t sound loud at the time still cause damage?

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Answer 1

Yup

The reason loud stuff hurts your hearing isn’t because it sounds loud. It sounds loud because of what your ear tells your brain.

Loud sounds physically damage your inner ear.

Sound is just waves travelling through the air. Energy that bounces around the area, getting inside your head, making some stuff move.

Too much energy, and it can break stuff; Think the different between tapping on a table, and swinging a sledgehammer at a table