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Convention Paper

Product Safety- End of Audio Fun?

Authors: Werner, Erhard E.

AES Convention 114 · Paper 5744 · March 2003

Abstract

Protection against hearing impairment is as well an individual as a general community matter. Regulations for offices and factories exist since longtime. Proposals for similar protective means for the leisure range resulted in extreme contradictory arguments. The contribution is dealing with an European attempt to find a compromise between the natural wish for unlimited individual acoustic fun and fundamental consequences of living within a community offering social health care. Details of EN 50332 and consequences for technical details of portable audio equipment are presented with reference to the product safety directive.

Details

Published in
AES Convention 114
AES Convention
114
Paper number
5744
Publication date
March 6, 2003
Session subject
Loudspeakers
Type
Convention Paper