Which do more damage to your hearing, earphones or headphones?

Depends on how loud you have it, but assuming the same volume level, probly the in-ear ones because they are so close to your inner ear.

Earbuds & Canalphones.

Full-sized & supra-aural headphones are a bit harder to carry around, but I much prefer them..with that being one of the reasons.

Buds and headphones don't damage hearing, people do.duxup

I'm curious too. I've broken one set of in-ear headphones in four years and they simply wore out.DJ_Lae

I would imagine that a good pair of IEMs would damage your hearing least since it provides enough isolation that you can probably get by with 1/3 or 1/2 the volume necessary to completely drown out ambient noise.

I'd guess it wouldn't make a difference. If the sound is loud enough to cause hearing damage, it'll cause it whether or not you use earbuds or headphones.

With that said, earphones usually do a better job at maximizing the amount of sound coming out of a player, so they theoretically have potential to cause more damage.

Just don't put the volume up too high and you'll be fine.

Think of standing next to a jet engine, that'll be pretty loud right? Now move 2cm away. I don't think it makes much of a difference.UnamedThing

With that said, earphones usually do a better job at maximizing the amount of sound coming out of a player, so they theoretically have potential to cause more damage.

RadBooley

i think earphones, they get inside ur ear, as headphones just sit by it. iam2green