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In Reply to: Hearing loss posted by Martythomas on September 30, 2016 at 11:51:09:
Hearing tests that rely upon discrete tones at reducing amplitude will tell you very little about your normal hearing accuity. Unless , of course, your listening is restricted to sinewaves.The human brain is very clever and makes astonishing adjustments for reasonable deviations.
My own hearing was damaged in my right ear by a trauma experienced during my mid-twenties. I too can hear little over 8K in that ear given the standard test. My left ear measures reasonably well in comparison ( and taking account of presbycusis). For the first months after the damage I was very aware of a dullness in my right ear. Yet, by and large, years later I cannot hear any difference between them given normal real life audio stimulii including listening to music. Were you aware of any difference between your two ears before the test? Exactly.
If the aim of high fidelity sound reproduction is to reproduce through an artifical medium what you hear in real life then unless you are prepared to wear Earglasses all of the time what you will hear when putting them on will not resemble what you hear normally. If they boost sound over a certain frequency how do they manage to do it as a precise mirror image of your hearing loss irrespective of the distortion caused by them being an artificial extension to your pinnae (which are a major and individually unique part of our aural location processing)?
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