Loud hobbies may drive people to ever-louder home theater listening.

Evidence

I have encountered a few people who seem to have a “deaf” wish, combining loud home theaters with loud hobbies; maybe the latter leads to the former. — Toole, Floyd E, Sound reproduction- the acoustics and…, 857

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is there data on hearing-loss-related volume escalation, or is this anecdotal?

Related

• Home theater owners routinely reduce volume by 10 dB or more (similarity 0.79)
• High ambient noise forces listeners to raise volume toward hearing-loss levels (similarity 0.79)
• Home recording democratization raises demand for quality monitoring in untreated rooms. (similarity 0.78)