[bigmanwalter]

Except prolonged exposure to headphones makes you go deaf. I've got enough hearing loss as it is.

[nine_k]

Good headphones for such a setup are tightly closed, DJ-style ones. They isolate you from outside noise, so you can listen to e.g. quietly playing piano pieces (don't like Schubert? try Rick Wakeman) and concentrate.

[grokas]

Prolonged exposure to unhealthy volume levels makes you go deaf.

FTFY

Simply taking headphones out of the box they came in doesn't make you go deaf.

[hx87]

It's not headphones, it's loudness. Just don't crank the volume on your headphones and you'll be fine.