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Neither should do any permanent damage to your hearing... unless you crank the volume, in which case both will be bad for your hearing.
The main difference for me is the bigger and more natural "sound stage" you get from a larger driver of the headphones.
same volume on the player
I've noticed that there is more bass response and an apparent rise in volume with the cans....
You can also generally get more absolute level with cans before distortion if the amp will produce enough power.
But distortion is potentially worse for your hearing than a clean sound at the same volume level, I think.
So it may work out about the same overall. The bottom line is that both can damage your hearing if you play them too loud for too long...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
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Personally I prefer isolating in-ear ones because I can turn the volume right down... so if I'm out and about it's in ear with good sound isolating ear buds..
Indoors I can isolate myself from noise better so I can then use big open over-ears and still turn the volume down and still hear it all...
However, while distortion does increase hearing damage, it's not a massive difference compared to clean at the same volume.
are some of you guys familiar with the little sandisk mp3 ply?
you can reset the default audio tae "rest of the world" during set up and this brings the volume up a little from the way too low UK default..anyways ,my normal listening volume is 3 notches from full..Hooters says it's much too loud...whaddya all think?