digital music does not distort and keep its crystal clear sound, even on loud settings,which encourages children to crank up the volume.combine that with the fact that many children will spend hours listening to their iPods,and you have the recipe for hearing loss. Put into further perspective,most MP3 players can reach levels of 120decibels, which is louder than a chainsaw or lawnmower. When you consider 85decibels is the maximum safe decibel level set by hearing experts over the course of a working day,and that children will listen to music at higher decibel levels that for long periods of time,hearing will invariably suffer