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In Reply to: RE: Anyone over 55 (a little arbitrary…) is experiencing hearing loss. Has yours posted by tinear on August 15, 2014 at 12:33:49
Age 55 now -
Last I checked which was over a couple decades ago, I had a very slight loss right around 800Hz. And I know exactly why....
Been wearing headphones and sending / receiving Morse code since age 13 as a HAM radio operator. I would always tune at about 800Hz which was my preferred tone for listening to and copying (decoding) code.
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Sorry to say, after 50+ years I could only copy about 2/3 of the Morse at 25 wpm. I guess it would take a few hours practice to get back to snuff. I had no trouble "thinking" in Morse code at 35+ wpm back when I was a teenager.
As to hearing at age 70, I can hear 12 kHz tones, but when I was 19 I had no trouble at 21 kHz.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
At 75 I know I have a problem. 20 years ago I was tested at OU and my hearing dropped very quickly after 8500. And I have tinnitus. This is one reason I insist on a good system-I surely cant hear it if it isnt there. Cymbols, triangles are no problem. I dont think I have to be conscious of hearing a sound for it to bother me. That would be true of higher pitched sounds. I dont have trouble with records-only some cds.
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