November 11, 200817 yr comment_174876 not so good So, since a lot of us are old fogeys, I figured at least one of us would care. Report
November 11, 200817 yr Author comment_174882 Easy choice. Music > arythmic heartWell, it's hard to listen to music if you're dead, being the reasoning here.Just use electrostats. Sound thinking. Report
November 11, 200817 yr comment_174886 Better to be dead with music than alive without Besides, arythmia won't kill you right away. Report
November 11, 200817 yr Author comment_174891 Better to be dead with music than alive without You crack me up. Report
November 11, 200817 yr comment_174893 Hey, I just thought of a product. Pacemaker with a subwoofer input Report
November 11, 200817 yr Author comment_174895 (used car advertiser voice) "You want to talk about visceral impact? I've got your visceral impact right (smacks self in chest) here. And in case the 'big one' comes, it doubles as a defibrillator." Report
November 11, 200817 yr comment_174918 To really have a serious problem from the interaction of an external magnet and an implantable pacemaker or defibrillator you need the magnet power of the ones in the Apogee speakers, which are well above most dynamic speakers, so let alone tiny earphones I know it well, a friend of mine has one of those defib implanted and the only speakers which gave problems were his Apogees Duetta when he was holding them to change placement into the room. He finally sold the speakers, but he's a regular user of others and cans. Never a problem. One thing is "can be affected" and a very different one is having interaction to cause failure or malfunction, which should be the point instead of causing all this stupid public alarm. Cell phones can interact, MW ovens can interact... almost anything producing a EM or magnetic field can interact with a PM or DF. Fortunately not enough to cause malfunction, otherwise PM users should live in the countryside very away from any electrical or magnetic device Report
November 12, 200817 yr comment_174933 I'd be more worried getting a prank call from a hacker if I had a pacemaker.... Report
November 14, 200817 yr comment_175481 i just used my gaussmeter to measure the strength of the magnets in my headphones. My shure e4 and e5c had 2 gauss which is next to nothing. My alessando ms2i had 200 which according to the study had a potential to interfier with pacemakers. Report
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