DJ gear, including the specification nobody prints

Every manufacturer publishes a frequency response. None publishes the exposure dose that ends your hearing. That gap is what this site exists for.

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Start with the thing that ends careers

Hearing

The exposure maths

Noise dose is logarithmic. Three decibels louder halves your safe exposure time, and a club is far past the threshold.

Protection

Do musicians' earplugs work?

A randomised trial tested earplugs against recreational noise exposure. They work, and only if worn.

Monitoring

Booth monitoring

Why you keep turning the monitor up, and how to break the loop that follows.

Risk

Tinnitus and hyperacusis

Systematic review evidence on prevalence in musicians. It is higher than in the general population.

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