ayu's 10th anniversary : another A museum or DOME TOUR ?

[immel]

Originally Posted by realize_!

isn't the DOME TOUR the venue that got ayu deaf -_-,

I don't know about that. I don't think she ever went deaf but she got some serious problems with one of her ears after one tour. I can understand her, the sound level of her performance at the Yoyogi Stadium was immense, that one held 12000 people. A guess is that her performance in the Tokyo Dome held 40000+ people (max 55000), that would mean more speakers and even louder volume. When you stand behind the speakers, on stage, the noise isn't that loud, as the speakers are build to push the sound forward (according to my friends father who got a band the speakers is most likely set up that way). But for some songs she walk out into the centre of the Dome, at those times she has to pass the speakers which can be completely devastating for your ears.

Ears can be damaged from either too much loud noise for a too long time or a short moment of an extremely loud sound.

There's also the possibility that the earbuds that she used for the performance has far too loud volume in them, this damaging her hearing.

Maybe the answer can be gotten in the NTV interview from 2004? I haven't watched it yet.

I'm not sure if it was during DT01 that she hurt her ear.