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[Merlijn van Veen]

Click here for a beautiful demonstration of what age-related hearing loss sounds like.

Regards,

Merlijn

[Scott Trouwborst]

WHAT?! EH?

[Nitin Sidhu]

But I can hear the differences all the way through.. ooh yeah...  hehe. Good fun.

Merlin, you have an evil plot here.

[Stephen Kirby]

Wondering how that curve was arrived at.  My own hearing loss is a much steeper roll off.  At 60 up to 10k is still fine dropping off around 14k.  Could still hear 18k at 50.  Tinnitus rather than HF loss caused me to start protecting my ears in my 40s but they'd still had more abuse than the regular Joe on the street.

[g'bye, Dick Rees]

http://youtu.be/4fWyzwo1xg0

[John Roberts {JR}]

I recall reading an article a few decades ago about researchers who travelled deep into the borneo jungle and measured hearing response of natives who weren't exposed to modern civilization's industrial noise levels. The tribe's elders had much younger hearing curves than expected for their age.

I worried about the Sony Walkman generation pumping high SPL into their ear buds.

And the kids reading this who don't know what a Sony walkman is.   

JR

[Debbie Dunkley]

Well according to what I just listened to, no-one on this forum over the age of 52 should be running sound.....we are all screwed!!!!

[brian maddox]

Well according to what I just listened to, no-one on this forum over the age of 52 should be running sound.....we are all screwed!!!!

2 years to go! 

[David Buckley]

Well according to what I just listened to, no-one on this forum over the age of 52 should be running sound.....

I'm beyond that, and am very aware that I have very limited top end, and that the mix is supposed to sound dull, not bright.  If it's bright, I'm killing people.

Trick is to listen to reference tracks one has known for years on systems one trusts, and preferably has also been in one's life for years, so one knows what the overall tonality is supposed to be.

[Debbie Dunkley]

I'm beyond that, and am very aware that I have very limited top end, and that the mix is supposed to sound dull, not bright.  If it's bright, I'm killing people.

Trick is to listen to reference tracks one has known for years on systems one trusts, and preferably has also been in one's life for years, so one knows what the overall tonality is supposed to be.

Although my hearing is still quite good - considering....... I also adjust for the high end in the knowledge that higher frequencies dull over the years.

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