Melbourne, June 10 : You might love listening to your favourite music on your iPods, but a new survey has revealed that more than 70 pct of young adults are loosing their hearing power, thanks to the increasing use of headphones.

The survey led by Australian Hearing showed that more than 70 pct of the youngsters are suffering from the first sign of hearing loss with tinnitus or ringing in the ear.

This may be due to listening to music played at dangerously loud levels through headphones.

"That was a real surprise because that was actually more common than the older respondents," News. com. au quoted Professor Harvey Dillon, director of the National Acoustics Laboratory at Australian Hearing, as telling Fairfax radio.

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