


My ear has been feeling warm and also itchy at times, sound had my ear feeling as if it was fatigued, my ear would feel full, it felt like I had something in my ear and when I would sleep on my affected ear it would also exacerbate this feeling. I did not use my headphones for two days but I have been having more issues since.

The next day in the affected ear, regular sound sounded slightly tinny as if I was listening to things in a hollow room. Initially when the loud noise occurred it left me me hearing music differently, this being it sounded different to normal feeling like my ear had fatigue and my ear felt itchy. This has resulted in some issues with one of my ears. With speakers this is different (usually you'll blow tweeters up before the woofers go, and usually you'll destroy the surround or cone on a woofer before you destroy the motor, so it's possible to damage the speaker's ability to run full range, without killing it entirely (this assumes the crossover doesn't give out or that there's no sacrificial fuses/relays/etc inside of the thing)).Almost two weeks ago I was using my headphones and a loud high pitched noise occurred. Since they're single driver, anything that damages the driver will damage it across the board. So feeding some HF signal in at insane amplitude will kill them too. Regarding frequency - in a music signal, LF makes up most of your power requirements, but if you're feeding a big sine wave (or whatever) into your cans, power requirements can be high no matter what. I think you're probably alright here, but I don't want to give an "open range" kind of message - you can kill your gear doing this kind of thing. The longer they're made to run with a (relatively) smaller large input, it can rack up to damage if you get into over-excursion (tears in the diaphragm and the like) and cooking the voice coil off (if it can't cool it will eventually fuse). It has to do with excursion and heat - if the input is large enough, it can destroy them instantaneously, but we're talking VERY large inputs.
