Hearing Loss (was AW: AW: Vinyl/CD)

[patchell]

"P.M. van Nugteren" wrote:

>
> It's a bit OT but I can hear just to 11kHz and I'm 20 years old. And
> than really bothers since I'm such a sound geek. Anyway I'm wondering
> I've never listened to any really hard music/sounds for a long time so
> it isn't that. But maybe it's listening to strange unnatural timbres? I
> know it's sounds silly but I haven't got another explanation. (This is
> what "normal" ppl said to me something like, yeah I told you you listen
> to geek stuff why do you do it anyway... shhhh dorks)
>
> Paul

    11 KHz and you're 20!?  Many things can cause hearing loss.  Ear
infections and loud noise are the two big ones.  When I turned 25, I started
taking good care of my ears.  Ear plugs around loud noise, keeping the
stereo down to a "reasonalble" level, no more head phones, etc.  At 45, I am
down to about 12KHz now.  When I was 18, I could hear clear out to 25KHz.
The only good thing about my hearing now is I can no longer hear the
horizontal oscilator squeal that comes out of TV sets.

    -Jim

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