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In Reply to: RE: Ideal frequency response curve posted by Tony Lauck on June 18, 2015 at 12:49:45
"customers don't buy products that give them "bleeding ears"
Very thoughtful response, Tony. Nice contribution.
But I'm not sure manufacturers don't mind adding a little sizzle to their steak. It's called "detail." I hit the CES and Rocky Mountain audio shows every year, and too many times I don't make it more than three feet into the demo room before I rush right out again. OW! OW! OW!
Perhaps its because there is no blood left in the ears of the younger generations as a result of attending a few rock concerts or from having headphones permanently welded to their skulls. Or maybe they figure that the real buyers of their stuff are old guys (like me? us?) who need a bit of boost in the high freqs or we can't hear them at all. But that's all just speculation.
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I haven't destroyed my hearing by abusing it. When I was 19 I could hear 21 kHz. Today, at 71, I can still hear 13000 kHz. Live music doesn't sound dull, and I can hear tonal differences in music when cutting or boosting frequencies above 15 kHz, even though I can't hear sine waves at these frequencies any more. The mind provides needed recalibration of frequency response providing that one's hearing changes gradually. If there is sudden damage due to accident or illness then this may not happen.
I have no use for equipment that is marketed to people who listen to non-acoustic music. The existence of these people and the existence of this music is one of the reasons why there has been little real progress in audio over the years. If I were appointed "Musical Dictator of the Univers" my first edit would be the banning of all musical instruments that are not operated on human power. (This would even include banning pipe organs, unless they were hand pumped.) :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
After your ban on non-acoustical instruments becomes effective, what will we do with all of those people who once liked them?
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