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Yep, good excuse. Something he didn't have to listen to a lot of whining and begging not to leave just yet. yata yata yata.Man following his dream of being on the road is assuming the best. I know I am tempted to do the same.
Saying he has lost his hearing is letting down his fans gently....
Probably because the vast majority of their readers who can afford the stuff they promote, and the time to listen to it, are long past their best hearing age too.Interesting that so many high-end audio reviewers are long past their best hearing age. I guess one can just make-it-up as one goes.
Hey, that may explain lots of reviews. View attachment 13728
Man following his dream of being on the road is assuming the best. I know I am tempted to do the same.
Saying he has lost his hearing is letting down his fans gently....
Probably because the vast majority of their readers who can afford the stuff they promote, and the time to listen to it, are long past their best hearing age too.
3 of my 4 children are music lovers who have no interest in hifi, mainly because the space it takes but also because they have better things to do with their money.
My son mainly listens on headphones, when he has time, and 2 of my daughters, both of whom are excellent amateur musicians who perform in lots of concerts, listen on modest systems which take up little space. Optimum speaker positioning in any of their rooms would be ridiculously inappropriate for either of their lifestyles.
I’m looking forward to the day that noise-induced and age-related (ie conductive) hearing loss can be treated.
Since age related loss hapens very, very slowly we are unaware of it and remain used to the sounds around us.I’m looking forward to the day that noise-induced and age-related (ie conductive) hearing loss can be treated.
Since age related loss hapens very, very slowly we are unaware of it and remain used to the sounds around us.
My wife, a professional musician, is sadly going deaf. The audiologist measured her hearing loss and provided hearing aids which corrected it accurately. She -hates- them and never uses them because they make the world sound "screechy and unpleasant", which is a shame since she needs aid to hear us, and the choirs she conducts, and she often mis-hears or doesn't hear at all
Sorry to hear about your wife's hearing loss, and you're absolutely right about our brain's internal filter, which tends to adjust to the frequency our ears provide. However, assuming her hearing aids are not creating unpleasant distortions etc, it must also be true that she would get used to their frequency response if she wore them constantly (following an adjustment period ofc).
Find an old piezo earpiece and try it. Hearing aids are better but that sound is still apparent.
What happens is as you age the high frequencies gradually drop off. The music is still engaging, but the "air" from the top octaves is gone.
When that happens a hearing aid is needed to understand speech. Somehow I have survived loud music, shotguns and deep water diving.In an ideal case, yes, but in reality most of us will find by even middle age that our 2-4KHz range has also taken a significant hit due to noise exposure.
When that happens a hearing aid is needed to understand speech. Somehow I have survived loud music, shotguns and deep water diving.
According to this study from the NIDCD, around one fifth of Americans in their twenties "show signs" of this kind of hearing loss (i.e. a notch in the lower-mid treble that may or may not be severe enough to qualify as clinical hearing loss). Likely causes include headphone use, noisy work environments, and concerts, etc.
Sure, most of these cases are not clinical. But "not clinical" could mean a 24dB reduction in this range! Definitely not the kind of hole in frequency response you'd accept from your equipment if you were an audiophile