David Jenkins
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 05:06 PM |
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Originally posted by spiderman
Protecting your ears from excessive noise is a must, as many of us on here probably suffer from tinnitus to one degree or another and it's not
funny and that's why it's known as the "suicide disease" as many who get it contemplate ending it all in the first twelve
months of contracting the condition.
I should add that, despite my earlier comments, that I do always use some form of ear protection when I'm out in the Locost - ear plugs as a
minimum, but usually full ear defenders. I do suffer from a little bit of tinnitus, probably caused during the time when I used to do full-bore
pistol and rifle shooting (I did wear ear defenders when shooting, but there were a small number of occasions when I'd taken them off before
people had finished shooting*). If I was stopped because of them, I'd just suggest that they ask one of their police bike riders about the
effect of wind noise on their hearing...
However, I can hear a lot of sounds from traffic and the like, which I may not if I'm listening to music through headphones.
* As an aside - how is it that film actors don't even blink when they shoot a gun indoors? It's so loud it really HURTS!
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james h
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 05:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
quote:
Originally posted by spiderman
Protecting your ears from excessive noise is a must, as many of us on here probably suffer from tinnitus to one degree or another and it's not
funny and that's why it's known as the "suicide disease" as many who get it contemplate ending it all in the first twelve
months of contracting the condition.
I should add that, despite my earlier comments, that I do always use some form of ear protection when I'm out in the Locost - ear plugs as a
minimum, but usually full ear defenders. I do suffer from a little bit of tinnitus, probably caused during the time when I used to do full-bore
pistol and rifle shooting (I did wear ear defenders when shooting, but there were a small number of occasions when I'd taken them off before
people had finished shooting*). If I was stopped because of them, I'd just suggest that they ask one of their police bike riders about the
effect of wind noise on their hearing...
However, I can hear a lot of sounds from traffic and the like, which I may not if I'm listening to music through headphones.
* As an aside - how is it that film actors don't even blink when they shoot a gun indoors? It's so loud it really HURTS!
I quickly learned to keep ear defenders FULLY on while lying prone next to a shooter with a muzzle brake on his rifle... Now I think about it,
I'm wondering if that is why my left ear is better than my right...
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adithorp
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 06:04 PM |
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
* As an aside - how is it that film actors don't even blink when they shoot a gun indoors? It's so loud it really HURTS!
Think the answer is, most of them do. I saw an interview with one of Hollywood's leading armourers. He said he'd only ever worked with 2
actors who didn't blink when they fired... Clint Eastwood and Yul Brynner
Back on topic... I always use foam ear plugs in the Fury.
"A witty saying proves nothing" Voltaire
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 07:26 PM |
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Was once tuning a car with a carbon fibre intake (two-piece item). Car backfired into the intake with the throttle shut and split the carbon from end
to end with something of a loud bang. Took me a good week to regain some lost frequency ranges and it did nothing to help my existing tinnitus!
Didn't blink when that went pop but I think more out of surprise than Clint-style awesomeness.
[Edited on 24/2/15 by coyoteboy]
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Matt21
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 09:02 PM |
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Ive tried it twice, once in the indy on a blast out and once in my daily to get some music on I wanted
and I have to say, neither time lasted more than 10minutes before I took them out
I absolutely hated it, I felt dangerous.
I didn't have anything loud on but theyre noise cancelling and it felt like I had a box on my head and all my senses were gone, weird I know.
I like to hear whats going on around me and be aware of everything that's going on.
Im sure there was something recently about the legalities of it too
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froggy
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| posted on 24/2/15 at 09:29 PM |
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I have an autocom system in my car for track days and have a pair of practise headsets which I use on long journeys with a passenger . no idea on
legality but I've been stopped whilst wearing them and it wasn't mentioned , I do wonder what I look like as my car doesnt look remotely
sporty .
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 25/2/15 at 05:39 PM |
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I didn't have anything loud on but theyre noise cancelling and it felt like I had a box on my head and all my senses were gone, weird I know.
Funny that, I find the opposite. Lose a sense (useless sense, hearing stuff isn't going to help in almost any situation that isn't already
covered by vision) and you can concentrate more on the others which are more useful.
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IanSouthLincs
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| posted on 27/2/15 at 08:35 PM |
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To be honest I used to do this a lot before I had a car with bluetooth hands free a few years ago. Used to play music through my iphone with the
benefit of the phones already being there for calls too. I used Sennheiser CX400 in ear ones that have really good noise cancelling properties. It was
in a tin top, not an open top car but I found it absolutely fine. However my other half tried using headphones and she couldn't stand it, had
similar experience to that Matt21 mentioned.
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daveb83
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| posted on 2/4/15 at 12:21 PM |
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i have used in ear headphones while driving my MK under my helmet, but I only have them in if using a sat nav so i can hear directions without having
to take eyes off the road.
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