Buy a good quality $200 or so headset and you won't need to turn up the volume, people who rack up the volume are clearly overcompensating for the poor sound quality, I think people are nuts to have those ear buds blasting at full volume. Also if you're having to blast at full volume and you can barely hear anything with brand new headphones, you'll need to see a doctor, no joke, you've probably busted your ear drums.
^ I actually did research on this to make sure I was doing things safely while I was working and apparently those closed headphones ones that are really nice quality are safer than going to a club or a concert in terms of decibel noise and MUCH safer than ear buds.
This is bollox, I been giggin at some of the largest events in scotland, and I can honestly say I'm more likely to go deaf being in the crowd next to cabinets than having one cup half over ear with the other folded through not being needed. You wont go deaf, or I would be by now, especially after so much hardcore ('90's style, beginings of jungle) my ears are now taking over from my aging site, and I can hear just as good as when i was a kid..
What most people are lacking in headphones are the frequencies we cant hear that have been removed (as well as 80% of sound quality) by the creation of digitized music, ie, converting from analouge to digital, which basically makes music sound as bland as it is today..
Get analouge, forget digital, never look back, at least, with regards to sound.. if you really want your ears tested to the max, I got a specific cd that will make you dance so much you wont notice you cant hear..
Edit, dont pay 100 for RED, cause I got mine for 10, yup.. I guarantee that once you got one of these, you'll throw all your other amps in the bin..
Oh, and I was offered yet another gig last nite, why, cause in this department, I rock better than the best of the rest..
