In message <[email protected]>, dated Fri, 15
Feb 2013, Michael Derby <[email protected]> writes:
Some people say that the standard only covers portable music players
and therefore something like a laptop or tablet does not need to worry
about it. Other people say that it's easy to sit at your desk for 8
hours and listen to music while you work, so therefore those devices
should be assessed too.
This is the reason why British experts found the CENELEC approach
fundamentally unsatisfactory, in that it singles out just one source of
excessive exposure, and does nothing about places of entertainment, not
only clubs, racing circuits and sports grounds, but cinemas, for
instance, and even home audio systems.
Regulating these other sources is impracticable or extremely difficult,
so the way to deal with the issue is by public education. The British
RNID introduced its 'Don't Lose the Music' web-based project, which was
quite effective, but it suddenly abandoned it and has recently demanded
more stringent controls on portable players, which in my opinion is a
regrettable development.
The point is that people won't buy players that they consider 'too
quiet', and if those are the only ones available there will be a market
for supplementary amplifiers. Some of these already exist, and don't, of
course, emphasise the amplification but extras such as treble and bass
controls, stereo width controls, etc.
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