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In Reply to: RE: real life has headroom...and lots of it. posted by middleground on October 21, 2014 at 15:56:36:
I have completely normal ears. Like yours, they aren't as good as they used to be. I commented on what I know to be true from editing recordings and filtering out "inaudible" high frequencies. Making these frequencies go away makes the music sound less lifelike. There are many mastering engineers in the same boat. Like other people they can perceive the "theoretically" impossible. But the theory is false. It assumes that acoustics and processing in the ear/brain/mind are linear and they are not. Linearity is a mathematical simplification. It does not apply to the real world. This is the same BS theory that says because nobody can hear 22 kHz sine waves that 44 kHz digital audio is sufficient.
I know I can't hear the TV set noise any longer (if I still had a CRT TV), but I can still hear changing the level of high frequencies above 15 Khz with an equalizer. Although lots of those high frequencies are supposedly inaudible to me compared to my youth, live concerts sound just as good as they used to.
But then, I never listened to rock music or went to rock concerts or worked with noisy power tools. Apart from specific health issues, most hearing loss is caused by excessive use, i.e. listening to many loud sounds.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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