SandAndGlass and Rocks and Things
May 14, 2020 2:28:37 GMT
Post by Norman ‘Whiplash’ Mailer on May 14, 2020 2:28:37 GMT
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Well I am 65 and I honestly don't notice any preceived changes in sound personally.
A couple of years back, I put on some digitally sampled test tones and I could not hear them above 14-kHz. Even around 12-14 kHz. I had to turn the volume way up.
I was just playing around and I didn't think to try it with a tube amp and with the Altec's with their super-tweeters.
I was using the 250-Watt, Emotiva XPA-2 (gen.1) and the Polk LSiM707's.
But once I got down below 10-kHz. and 8-kHz. everything seemed normal to me.
With the equal loudness curves, it shows that we don't hear a 20-Hz. bass note with flat response until we get up to around 70 dB.
Since I have the 15" passive horn loaded sub, driven by a 1,600 Watt Crown amp. I have never noticed a problem with bass at any volume.
I had never really noticed that much up in that last octave, even in my 20's.
I still hear the shimmer of the cymbals and every thing still sounds the same to me.
@steve Hoffman must be somewhere around the 60's and apparently his hearing is still acute enough to master recordings.
Since going to class "A" single ended amplification on the Altec A7's, I find that I can listen to music at much lower SPL's than I used to earlier in my audio day and everything still sounds big and full.
I would imagine that it would be the same way with you, listening through your Avantgarde's and your David Berning OTL?
If anything, me ears are more sensitive and more subject to listening fatigue at higher frequencies, if the speakers are harsh in the HF range.
I do think that the brain must be acting as its own equalizer. Or else, my perception at 8-kHz. Should be drastically different.
A couple of years back, I put on some digitally sampled test tones and I could not hear them above 14-kHz. Even around 12-14 kHz. I had to turn the volume way up.
I was just playing around and I didn't think to try it with a tube amp and with the Altec's with their super-tweeters.
I was using the 250-Watt, Emotiva XPA-2 (gen.1) and the Polk LSiM707's.
But once I got down below 10-kHz. and 8-kHz. everything seemed normal to me.
With the equal loudness curves, it shows that we don't hear a 20-Hz. bass note with flat response until we get up to around 70 dB.
Since I have the 15" passive horn loaded sub, driven by a 1,600 Watt Crown amp. I have never noticed a problem with bass at any volume.
I had never really noticed that much up in that last octave, even in my 20's.
I still hear the shimmer of the cymbals and every thing still sounds the same to me.
@steve Hoffman must be somewhere around the 60's and apparently his hearing is still acute enough to master recordings.
Since going to class "A" single ended amplification on the Altec A7's, I find that I can listen to music at much lower SPL's than I used to earlier in my audio day and everything still sounds big and full.
I would imagine that it would be the same way with you, listening through your Avantgarde's and your David Berning OTL?
If anything, me ears are more sensitive and more subject to listening fatigue at higher frequencies, if the speakers are harsh in the HF range.
I do think that the brain must be acting as its own equalizer. Or else, my perception at 8-kHz. Should be drastically different.