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Warning:-to all metal detector users, most of whom seem to buy high powered loud headphones, regardless of if or not they have a sound limiter on them,over here in england U.K. recent scientific studies have shown that most our young teenage adults who walk about sporting the new mp3 players and headphones etc, are all begining to suffer some form of hearing damage leading to eventual deafness,from experiance I have also found that most detector users have their headphones turned up miles too loud, for your own protection you want to have them turned up only just enough so that you can only just hear the signal, I myself have suffered serious hearing damage from using an english made detector called the Red Heat mk 11, that comes on full blast at switch on, even though there was a poorly worded warning with the instructions ,lots of red heat owners have been caght out by this , but once its done -its done, the damage has already been done, I have now been left with bad tinnitus like sounds and ringing in the ears for several years now, steadly getting worse, I cant bear to use any form of headphones now, because as soon as I do it sets it all off again worse than ever.
The only set of headphones I ever came accross that were totaly guarded against this problem were a delux model made by a company in England UK called Pentechnic= who was also a detector repair company as well. these headphones seemed to have some sort of filtering system on them that made the sounds sound as if they were in the distance twenty or thirty foot away but was still quite clear and audible,but like a fool I was tempted by all these new super power headphones on the market , which I must admit seemed good at the time, and also super power metal detectors that offered depth and power increases , but all of them to a tee- lacked sufficient hearing guard limiters and filters to correct this problem, even though some of the detecters were over a $1,000 dollars each and some of the headphones were over $200 dollars each, so please all you metal detectorists out there- please turn down your exisisting headphones to the barest minimum sound, otherwise you will get either tinnitus (costant ringing in the ears ) for which there is no real cure, and or partial or total deafness, and please all you detector manufactures and headphone manufactures please stop producing high decibal headphones ,even with limiters, and please concentrate more on quality of sound at a much fainter level. also lots of detector manufactures need to address this issue by limiting the sound but not the detectors main depth seeking power, some crazy modifiers over here in the U.K. have taken a well known detector brand called C-Scope, and modified various models to nearly double their sound output,
The only set of headphones I ever came accross that were totaly guarded against this problem were a delux model made by a company in England UK called Pentechnic= who was also a detector repair company as well. these headphones seemed to have some sort of filtering system on them that made the sounds sound as if they were in the distance twenty or thirty foot away but was still quite clear and audible,but like a fool I was tempted by all these new super power headphones on the market , which I must admit seemed good at the time, and also super power metal detectors that offered depth and power increases , but all of them to a tee- lacked sufficient hearing guard limiters and filters to correct this problem, even though some of the detecters were over a $1,000 dollars each and some of the headphones were over $200 dollars each, so please all you metal detectorists out there- please turn down your exisisting headphones to the barest minimum sound, otherwise you will get either tinnitus (costant ringing in the ears ) for which there is no real cure, and or partial or total deafness, and please all you detector manufactures and headphone manufactures please stop producing high decibal headphones ,even with limiters, and please concentrate more on quality of sound at a much fainter level. also lots of detector manufactures need to address this issue by limiting the sound but not the detectors main depth seeking power, some crazy modifiers over here in the U.K. have taken a well known detector brand called C-Scope, and modified various models to nearly double their sound output,