Serpanos Yula C, DiBlasi Thomas, Butler Jasmin
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Adelphi University, Hy Weinberg Center, 158 Cambridge Avenue, Room 122, Garden City, NY 11530, USA.
New York Doctor of Audiology (AuD) Consortium, Garden City, NY 11530, USA.
Audiol Res. 2025 Jun 11;15(3):68. doi: 10.3390/audiolres15030068.
This study examined the effect of sound preference on loudness tolerance (LTLs) and preferred listening levels (PLLs) using personal listening devices (PLDs). The implication of this relationship on hearing health promotion counseling and practices using PLDs is discussed. Participants were 50 individuals, aged 21 to 90 years, with normal hearing or hearing loss. Listeners rated several sound samples (i.e., music, running speech, and machinery noise) played through a PLD using earphones according to their sound preference (i.e., enjoyable, acceptable, and unpleasant) and then self-adjusted the volume setting to their LTL and PLL for a sound sample in each sound preference category. Most listeners judged music (70%) as , running speech (54%) as , and machinery noise (84%) as No significant differences were found in LTLs according to sound preference, but PLLs for enjoyable sounds occurred at significantly higher levels compared with those deemed acceptable or unpleasant. Listeners using PLDs perceived LTLs and PLLs differently according to their sound preferences. PLLs occurred at significantly higher volumes for sounds deemed enjoyable when using PLDs. The implication is that hearing health counseling should include information to PLD users on the potential of altered loudness perception with enjoyable sounds, which may lead to higher and riskier PLD listening levels.
本研究使用个人听力设备（PLD），考察了声音偏好对响度容忍度（LTLs）和偏好聆听水平（PLLs）的影响。并讨论了这种关系对使用PLD进行听力健康促进咨询和实践的意义。研究参与者为50名年龄在21至90岁之间、听力正常或有听力损失的个体。听众根据声音偏好（即愉悦、可接受和不愉悦），对通过耳机经PLD播放的几个声音样本（即音乐、连续语音和机器噪音）进行评分，然后针对每个声音偏好类别中的一个声音样本，自行将音量设置调整到其LTL和PLL。大多数听众认为音乐（70%）是愉悦的，连续语音（54%）是可接受的，机器噪音（84%）是不愉悦的。根据声音偏好，LTLs未发现显著差异，但与那些被认为可接受或不愉悦的声音相比，愉悦声音的PLLs出现的水平显著更高。使用PLD的听众根据其声音偏好对LTLs和PLLs的感知有所不同。使用PLD时，对于被认为愉悦的声音，PLLs出现在显著更高的音量水平。这意味着听力健康咨询应向PLD用户提供信息，告知他们愉悦声音可能会改变响度感知，这可能导致更高且更有风险的PLD聆听水平。
