hearing wellness 2025-09-15T21:57:27Z
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Rain lashed against the train window like impatient fingers tapping, drowning out my podcast. I jammed the earcups tighter, knuckles whitening, as some tinny voice discussed quantum physics through a soup of static and screeching brakes. My skull throbbed – not from the content, but from the war my $400 headphones were losing against reality. That’s when I stabbed blindly at my phone, hitting the Sennheiser icon out of sheer desperation.