The European Commission set volume limits for Mp3 player in all of the European Union member states. The limits strongly emphasize the maximum sound exposure anywhere rules, to protect audition of music lovers, these limits should prevent the devices from outputting sound louder than 80 decibels as their default settings. As the official argued, a raised volume that can easily cause permanent hearing damage, so if it surpasses the level, Mp3 player will light warn signal.



It’s easy to push up the sound levels on your Mp3 player to damagingly loud levels, especially on busy streets or public transport, consumer affair commissioner Meglena Kuneva said, this evidence is that particularly young people who are listening to music at high volumes sometimes for hours each week. EU new healthy risk commission pointed, long time raised voice hearing Mp3 might cause loss hearing, the current medicine there is no idea they can be putting their hearing at risk.

Estimated, there are about 50 million to 0.1 billion people hearing handy music player everyday.