Headphone magnets and pacemakers

[Dusty Chalk]

not so good

So, since a lot of us are old fogeys, I figured at least one of us would care.

[grawk]

Easy choice. Music > arythmic heart

[cclragnarok]

Just use electrostats.

[Dusty Chalk]

Easy choice. Music > arythmic heart

Well, it's hard to listen to music if you're dead, being the reasoning here.

Just use electrostats.

Sound thinking.

[grawk]

Better to be dead with music than alive without

Besides, arythmia won't kill you right away.

[Dusty Chalk]

Better to be dead with music than alive without

You crack me up.

[grawk]

Hey, I just thought of a product. Pacemaker with a subwoofer input

[Dusty Chalk]

(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."

[Torpedo]

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

[luvdunhill]

I'd be more worried getting a prank call from a hacker if I had a pacemaker....

[Chekhonte]

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.