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In Reply to: RE: with all due respect for your 69 year old ears posted by tailspn on June 25, 2012 at 06:54:11
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Yes, you can still hear some differences but time to face facts
If typical his hearing is -40dB or greater at 8,000 Hertz
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Those charts must be taken from measurements of aged jack hammer operators and rock musicians.
I'm 68 years old and have no problem hearing sine waves at 14 Khz, not the 21 kHz I could do 50 years ago, but good enough to be able to hear the differences between the various digital formats and to recognize when a recording sounds like live music and when it does not.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
These graphs are really strange. I am 70 years old and just had my hearing checked. At 10,000hz I was down 3db. Not even close to what this chart shows. My much younger audiophile friends are constantly amazed at things I point out to them about the sounds of there systems. Do I hear as good as when I was 20. Who knows. The experience of listening for 70 years cannot be overlooked
Alan
Edits: 06/29/12
I am even older than you, my hearing is not what used to be but it is still fine, fine enough to clearly hear all the surface noise, clicks and pops of vinyl, I started with vinyl some 55 years ago, when digital arrived I embraced it and have never looked back.
For pop, jazz and rock I can see using vinyl once in a while, but for classical which is my prime interest vinyl is not suitable, most classical works do have very quiet passages, whisper like, this is where vinyl surface noise overtakes the music, and in the loud passages vinyl can not delver uncompressed dynamic range so crucial for lifelike presentation.
Vahe
Over 96% of the music is below 8000Hz, mid range quality is the key.
Sure an older person may not hear a lot above 10K but I think that
they still can differentiate good from bad.
In general they also have more experience on tonal correctness.
and tonal quality is the key.
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