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In Reply to: RE: Effect of age on hearing Dac's differances. posted by Sumflow on July 14, 2012 at 20:55:35
In the world of Audio people who are older will likely have more experiences and therefore assume their hearing is better than those who do not.I think that with time and experience people can train their senses to be more acute so that they can pick up on nuances in sound. However literally a younger person's ear will probably take in more data [able to physically hear more].
So maybe it all boils down to perception.
A younger person hears more but perceives less.
A older person who has trained themselves to pick up on audible differences in sound may actually hear less but perceive more than the young person.With age, reflexes are supposed to decrease as well, but an older race car driver will likely have better reflexes than a younger untrained person.
my 0.02
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
Edits: 07/15/12Follow Ups:
Look at the situation with various sports. As an athlete gets older he becomes more experienced and skillful, but as his body ages he gets weaker and less coordinated. At some point age finally wins out over experience. The peak age is different for each sport and to a certain extent the individual.
The rate at which one's hearing deteriorates depends on how well one cares for one's ears. Going to loud concerts of amplified music without ear protection will accelerate the aging . It is possible to lose a lot of one's hearing in a single instant.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
Look at the situation with various sports. As an athlete gets older he becomes more experienced and skillful, but as his body ages he gets weaker and less coordinated.There is not a positive correlation between muscle loss and hearing loss however. Hearing involves many other factors besides muscles, such as bones, nerves, and water balance. So many things can affect hearing without having an external cause or having necessarily to do with age. For example a person who has kidney failure and is going through weekly dialysis might experience some hearing difficulty after dialysis due to a reduction of bodily fluids. This will also cause a common blood pressure drop. Medications such as Aspirin can also cause hearing loss.
At some point age finally wins out over experience.Indeed age is the current that eventually takes us all down stream...can't fight it.
The rate at which one's hearing deteriorates depends on how well one cares for one's ears.
As I stated before the rate at one hearing deteriorates has multiple factors, one of which is protection from external noise. In addition to the various other aspects that can affect hearing, one can also include genetics to some extent.
However unlike physical strength hearing involves the sense of perception. So even if hearing is 100%, if the ability to discriminate sound is low perception of hearing sounds will be low. Much like a trained wine taster who has developed his sense of perception of taste. He has no more taste buds than anyone, however he can distinguish tastes better than most.
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
Edits: 07/15/12
Keeping in the same vein of thought; I find myself pretty unhappy when I've forgotten to take some earplugs with me when I go out to see a new movie at the movie theatre. The balance of dialogue volume as opposed to background sounds & music is just plain ridiculous !!!
I find myself wondering if movies are being "sound engineered" to compensate for the hearing deficencies of the younger generation who seem to have been damaging their hearing on a daily basis for years.
The iPod brought high volume bad sound to the masses. The entire chain from making the music to the listener is full of half-deaf people who don't know any better.
Yep I agree, 20 years from now we will see a new generation of people requiring hearing aids.
Now is the time to invest in hearing aid companies!!
Dynobots Audio
Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
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