A music-lover's guide to tinnitus
The article repeats points like this quite a few times:<p>&gt; I like hearing my music at loud volumes, as everyone does.<p>I don&#x27;t think this is true.  A lot of people like going to the kinds of events that have loud music, but I&#x27;ve seen a <i>lot</i> of people who don&#x27;t like the volume.  One obvious example: most of the weddings I&#x27;ve been to recently turn into dance parties, and the volume creeps its way up and up.  As this happens, a lot of the guests start moving farther from the speakers, off the dance floor, and eventually out of the room.  Dancing: lots of fun.  Ear-splitting volume: not necessarily.<p>At my wedding, we picked a great band and kept the music at a comfortable level, and most of the guests danced the whole time and even the non-dancing guests clustered around the dance floor.  I can&#x27;t prove causation, but I bet the tolerable volume had a lot to do with it.<p>So maybe the real solution is for people to start trying to figure out why the norm for concerts is to have the volume painfully loud.  It&#x27;s possible that guests just might enjoy them more with quieter music.