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“My ears are ringing, loudly. This rarely happens after a live show, unless the Who play a small club. This is a peculiar hazard of the recording studio. The point I’m making is that it is not live sound that causes hearing damage. Earphones do the most damage. [...] I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. It takes time, but it happens [...] Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired. If you use an iPod or anything like it, or your child uses one, you MAY be OK [...] But my intuition tells me there is terrible trouble ahead.” Pete Townshend