Please don't misunderstand me, i agree with your assertions above... i don't think people should be walking around in public with headphones on. it does isolate you from your surroundings, often dangerously and sociopathically so... making you not only an obstacle but occasionally even a target!
That said, it bears explanation that I wasn't really talking about the "perpetually plugged-in pod people", i was talking about the general ignorance of the music-listening public at large regarding the ill psychological and physiological effects of Bad Audio.
Listening to overly-compressed (in both the data and dynamics senses of the term) audio is stressful and fatiguing to your ears (and consequently the rest of your body), and doing so through a pair of poor-quality transducers (be they speakers, headphones, or earbuds) can compound the problem. Not only are you damaging your hearing, you're throwing your whole body out of whack.
I am simply advocating that people take better care of their ears (and subsequently their holistic selves).
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That said, it bears explanation that I wasn't really talking about the "perpetually plugged-in pod people", i was talking about the general ignorance of the music-listening public at large regarding the ill psychological and physiological effects of Bad Audio.
Listening to overly-compressed (in both the data and dynamics senses of the term) audio is stressful and fatiguing to your ears (and consequently the rest of your body), and doing so through a pair of poor-quality transducers (be they speakers, headphones, or earbuds) can compound the problem. Not only are you damaging your hearing, you're throwing your whole body out of whack.
I am simply advocating that people take better care of their ears (and subsequently their holistic selves).