We all love music and we even more love to hear it at good quality for which we use earphones or headphones. We use earphones or headphones most often these days like when we are travelling, about to sleep and we are alone. These provide not only the good experience of music we are looking for but also the bad effects on your ears and brain.

Effects of earphones are: The most threatening and fatal effect of using earphones is losing hearing ability. There are other effects also like pain in ears, numbness of ears, slight damage to brain due to it’s electromagnetic waves and accidents.

Here is some audio levels and their effects on your ears by scientific study:

• At 95 dB, damage will occur after four hours of exposure per day.

• At 100 dB, damage will occur after two hours of exposure per day.

• At 105 dB, damage will occur after one hour of exposure per day.

• At 110 dB, damage will occur after 30 minutes of exposure per day.

• At 115 dB, damage will occur after 15 minutes of exposure per day.

• At 120-plus dB, damage occurs almost immediately.