In Reply to: RE: That's great... posted by louie3 on August 26, 2012 at 07:08:50:
>For instance, if my hearing has begun the slow top-end roll off of old age, I might like a pair of speaker cables that would be too bright for, say my wife, but make me mighty happy.>
As we age our hearing rolls off at say, 13-14,000 Hz.
Most of what you hear as "brightness" occurs in the 7000 to 10,000Hz range.
The very high high frequencies tend to be triangle overtones and air - not much in the way of actual sound there.
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