If you are playing headsets loud enough to blow them up, imagine the damage that you are doing to your eardrums. Easy to laugh off now as I did when I was younger and played in bands with amplifiers, etc. Not so funny now as I struggle to hear conversations in busy areas. The worst thing is that my teenage daughter, who loves her iPod, already has worse hearing than me. I am afraid that in 15-20 years, we are going to have A LOT of hearing impaired people everywhere. /end rant