It hurts!

[wraith]

Hi guys!

I tried yesterday my first "dose", French Roast from the free gift package.
I don't have headphones so I used earphones, just to try the effect.
Quiet ambient, dark room, relax... You know.
And low volume - about 3 or 4 on the slide, for sure not maxed out on my PC.
Equalizer off.

All right (OK, nothing, but I wasn't expexting a miracle) for the first two or 3 minutes, then all of a sudden a freaking pitch sound let my right ear scream in pain!
In less than i second I removed the earphones, and my ear kept hurting for some minute.
Then it become less painful, but this thing continued for hours - at least 12.
Every now and then my right ear started hurting for three or four seconds.

So, was I incredibly unlucky or this kind of thing is common?
I searched the whole forum and googled more than a bit, but no one reported a similar effect.

Thanks in advance!

[TheSherrif]

Have you had ear problems in the past? It is really uncommon for something like that to happen, but you could have reacted to the sound badly. If I were you I'd go and get my ears checked

[wraith]

Never ever had ears problem.
I keep listening to music, watching tv and such.
The pain is gone today, but I'm still scared to try again...

[Tool33]

You might've had the earphone pushed too far in, or probably had the volume too high.

[Tufnel]

that sounds like a problem with your PC and/or earphones... sometimes if the jack begins to come out of the plug, it can create a sort of feedback and cause a high pitched "Wheeeeeeeeeeeee"