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The volume in iPods is normally not limited, as the people at Apple believe that the volume level should be up to the user, with certain people sometimes preferring to increase levels with the purpose of making outside sounds impossible to hear. Using an iPod makes it difficult for an individual to understand that music gradually becomes less piercing as time goes by and the respective individual is as a consequence influenced to increase volume level without noticing the fact that the level he is using is more close to the maximum. Even with the fact that it seems perfectly normal for people to control the time they are listening to their iPods, their presence in crowded and noisy places consists the perfect environment in which music listening with the volume up seems like the best solution. It is extremely difficult for one to control the time they listen to music and the volume level they set on their iPods when knowing that he or she has one of the...
Listening to loud music in time creates a feeling quite similar to addiction, as users grow more and more unable to perceive soft sounds and eventually come to appreciate music only when they hear it with their volumes up.
Apple makes it particularly clear that people cannot maintain a universal volume level, since some prefer louder noises while others prefer soft sounds. Knowing that the people at Apple are uncertain in regard to the most appropriate volume level they should keep, iPod users can become even more confused concerning the gravity related to listening music with the volume close to the maximum.
Works cited:
"Frequently asked questions." Retrieved March 13, 2011, from the Apple Website: http://www.apple.com/sound/faq.html
"Sound and Hearing." Retrieved March 13, 2011, from the Apple Website: http://www.apple.com/sound/
Works cited:
"Frequently asked questions." Retrieved March 13, 2011, from the Apple Website: http://www.apple.com/sound/faq.html" target="_blank" REL="NOFOLLOW" style="text-decoration: underline !important;">http://www.apple.com/sound/faq.html
"Sound and Hearing." Retrieved March 13, 2011, from the Apple Website: http://www.apple.com/sound/
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