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Why do you think how well you hear and quantify sounds in "real life" outside of headphones proves anything about your hearing range? Do you think it's easy to figure out on your own when you have recesses from 15kHz up? Yes, you know what real, live music sounds like from concerts. But, what does that have to do with your hearing range? In relation to the above, everything is relative.This is ridiculous.
I still listen to real life with the same ears I use to listen to my hifi.
I have seen this sort of comment before about compensating for age related hearing loss and there is not even a tiny glimmer of logic to it.
My reference is the outside world and the many, many more concerts I have been to since I was young and, hence, a much keener knowledge of what real acoustic music, as opposed to music from speakers, actually sounds like.
Any relationship with my age is more knowledge and experience. When I was young and had pretty well only heard music over speakers, and almost exclusively pop music at that, I am sure I would have liked the preference curve Harman have assembled from a lot of listeners.
Now I am very much more knowledgeable and experienced I definitely do not.
Talking preference back in the day nearly everybody I knew had the "loudness" contour on and/or the bass turned up. "Preference" IME has little to do with accurate reproduction.
Also, though I don't know what alternative you have in mind, due to the nature of the human ear's pina, we currently have no better way to quantify accurate reproduction in headphones in headphones than with target preference curves.