Glyn Barnes
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My ears are low pass filters
That's confirmed my fears. Just had a hearing test and my hearing drops off above 1Khz.  if only I could find the knobs to control the cut off slope! The joys of growing older.
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 00:33:56
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Glyn Barnes
That's confirmed my fears. Just had a hearing test and my hearing drops off above 1Khz. if only I could find the knobs to control the cut off slope!
The joys of growing older.
1Khz????!!!! Wow, I hope you meant 10Khz! I'm still hearing 16Khz which amazes me at 50 considering all the damage I must have done when I was younger.
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 01:57:54
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Mine starts going at around 14-15Khz or so which I'm also impressed by considering the extremes I put my ears through at raves and the like in the early 90's (plus a couple of years before that in a thrash band). However, I have some tinnitus which I suspect may be masking frequencies above 15K.
Despite this high frequency loss, I was recently amazed to discover that I can hear 20Hz as clear as a (very low) bell.
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 03:05:27
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Glyn Barnes
That's confirmed my fears. Just had a hearing test and my hearing drops off above 1Khz. if only I could find the knobs to control the cut off slope!
The joys of growing older.
1Khz????!!!! Wow, I hope you meant 10Khz! I'm still hearing 16Khz which amazes me at 50 considering all the damage I must have done when I was younger.
Mmmm. I have to check that with them but I am sure the curve is flat until 1khz and then starts to drop off, getting progressively worse as the frequency increases.
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 06:27:58
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Actually, I was just looking at some charts and realized that 1kHz is half-way. I keep forgetting that sound is logrithmic. According to the below chart, you're hearing OK into the sixth octave: 
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 08:45:56
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Glyn Barnes
That's confirmed my fears. Just had a hearing test and my hearing drops off above 1Khz. if only I could find the knobs to control the cut off slope!
The joys of growing older.
Wow ... I can still hear things fairly well. I do not recall missing out on some parts, in the highs or the lows on anything, which I would have noticed in Beatles, Rolling Stones, and such by now ... that's interesting, but I hope I never have that problem! I think I worry more about losing my sight than I do my hearing. As I get older, I enjoy the silence as well as any music. Glyn, I do hear that Bedside Manners are Extra though ... and they can be nice and fun!
post edited by Moshkiae - 2013/12/02 09:03:17
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 14:10:20
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Moshkiae
Wow ... I can still hear things fairly well. I do not recall missing out on some parts, in the highs or the lows on anything, which I would have noticed in Beatles, Rolling Stones, and such by now ... that's interesting, but I hope I never have that problem!
Your brain adapts to hearing loss, especially if it is gradual in onset. So music that sounded good in your pre-loss state may well sound good after significant loss. It is hard to A/B compare two sounds that are separated by decades. And there is no way to compare what you hear in your brain when a song is playing to what someone with normal hearing is getting. There may well be problems however if you are mixing or processing a sound with significant variation from normal frequency response. What sounds fine to you in a mix may seem way too heavy in your deficit frequencies to the normal listener.
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 14:26:47
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My kid made me laugh once when she said, sounds just like a dog whistle!
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/02 22:33:46
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I can only hear the ticking of my watch with one ear. The other ear thinks it's stopped.
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Glyn Barnes
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/03 02:28:12
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My biggest problem I experience is making out a conversation when there is a lot of background noise. I don't notice any issues when listening to music, but probably compensate by turning up the treble a bit more than I used to.
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Re: My ears are low pass filters
2013/12/03 08:19:44
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Glyn Barnes
My biggest problem I experience is making out a conversation when there is a lot of background noise. I don't notice any issues when listening to music, but probably compensate by turning up the treble a bit more than I used to.
I've always played my stuff as if it had cleaner and clearer highs and lows. I like the contrast, and thus I usually turn the highs that way a bit so they are sharper, but I have done that for 40 years, and I can not say that I am not hearing them. IF ... there is a major difference, it is that I am listening more things through the computer instead of the speakers and stereo, and guess where that difference is HIGHLY VISIBLE and NOTED! We might be losing something, but in essence what we have lost the most is the hi-fi experience for enjoying the music.
As a wise Guy once stated from his holy chapala ... none of the hits, none of the time ... prevents you from becoming just another turkey in the middle of all the other turkeys!
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