# Are people living at higher volume these days?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-living-at-higher-volume-these-days/534826>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 3, 2010, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-living-at-higher-volume-these-days/534826 "2010-04-03T15:32:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-living-at-higher-volume-these-days/534826/21 "2010-04-04T13:51:12Z")

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I’ve been mostly deaf almost my entire life. My right ear has about a 90% hearing loss. My left ear picked up the slack just fine until I hit my late 50s and it started to fail. Now I have about a 50% loss in it.

I got hearing aids. The first time I wore them, I told the audiologist that I was hearing a buzzing noise. He thought for a moment, then opened the door to his office and the buzzing got louder. I was hearing the traffic going past on the freeway, which I was apparently unable to hear at all before.

Now that I have the hearing aids, all I can say is that the world is an incredibly noisy place.

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**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-people-living-at-higher-volume-these-days/534826/22 "2010-04-04T14:15:47Z")

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I don’t know what you are talking about. What was that? Speak up. Geez, you’re so quiet.

Oh geez, then I have to post after the deaf guy.

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