I guess decades of bar sound and shooting sorta messed things up!
I knew my left ear had loss above 4k but the right does too, just not as bad.
I have moderate to severe hearing loss in both ears…pretty close to a disability actually. I bought a really good pair of hearing aids and they made a massive difference.
Meh, there isn’t much music above 5K anyway. We’re talking about the sizzle on a cymbal type frequencies at that point.
I disagree!
If you look at your hearing test results, you’ll see degradation at higher frequencies. That means you’re still hearing it but perceiving it a lot less than others.
So investing in right tweeters is more important now than before :-)
The Focal and Naim app on my phone for the Focal Bathys comes with a pretty extensive hearing test and boosts the levels in the areas which you are least able to hear.
It asks you to click and hold a button when you hear the sound.
By doing so they can figure out what point your hearing loss and cutoff is.
The adjusted personal profile for my own hearing in my phone and now in the headphones across all devices is amazing.
That’s neat!
That sucks. I wear earplugs at concerts now.
Yeah I wear JH custom filters with 15db filters in. Helps soooo much. I should probably try the 20db filters.
I always mean to and forget and then curse myself
going to a concert tomorrow. putting the earplugs in the car now.
Find a napkin at the bar or from a bathroom. Stuff if in your ears. Works well in a pinch
I’ve had poor hearing my whole life, and shocking, it hasn’t gotten better with age. I use it as an excuse to add EQ to bring up the treble a bit. Come at me, purists.
I like to collect down votes for crapping on any EQ use but this is the one use case where it is totally appropriate and justified.
It’s more complicated than that and I wouldn’t give up on tweeters. Human hearing is very complicated and while you may not be able to hear high frequencies, and your ability to focus on a single sound in a group of sounds, it’s unlikely you’ve lost that ability entirely.
Looking at amplitude of multiple sounds over short intervals, there are variations that occur more frequently than the ability of a bass driver, for example, to reproduce and the tweeter is needed. As your brain focuses on a single sound, these variations are crucial to discern one sound from another
With myself ,Headphones ,loud music ,rock concerts ,and drilling ( tradesman) before anybody said ,get hearing protection for that hammer drill, long time ago. Still like to get upgraded floor speakers,wonder if I can tell difference due to hearing g loss
Part of the audiophile culture is the aesthetic as well, you can still build awesome systems to look at and (mostly) listen to …
I’ve always wondered about this assertion.
If you have hearing loss in a certain identifiable range, wouldn’t you want to increase the level at those frequencies?
If your hearing is down 5db at 4000hz, you want a system that increases the level at 4000hz by 5db. Not a system that decreases the level at 4000hz.
Just like if you build speakers and the frequency response has a dip in it. You modify the crossover to eliminate the dip. But this is assuming the ears listening to the speaker have a flat frequency response.
If your ears have a dip in frequency response you therefore modify the crossover to bring your ear’s frequency response back to flat.
It’s the opposite. You think that’s what you want or need to do. And then your wife complains non stop haha. But then you get correctly calibrated hearing aids and you get it back mostly. So no need to modify.
Having said that I do have some custom JH Roxanne’s that they tuned to my audiogram. I just sent it to them and they tuned to meet my needs. That alone makes them sound better than any non tuned to me IEMs.
Congratulations! It sounds like you’re middle aged.
move budget to bass, your body will feel it as long as you heart beating.
My left ear has problems around 4k, I used to think it was my headphones channel imbalance until I tested my ears 😆
I have hearing loss which has been diagnosed about a year ago. I now wear hearing aids and it’s a huge relief. Being able to hear birds again etc. I can definitely say that proper audio equipment still is relevant. Although, it did change a bit. I feel more comfortable with more commercial headphones now, I just bought the sony wh1000xm5 and that allows me to fine tune a bit more than other headphones. So all is not lost, see if you can get some good hearing aids and you’ll be fine!
Welcome to good hearing aids to get it back. I got new ones two weeks ago and hear things I’ve not heard in a while. I nose dive at 4K. For what it’s worth I got phonak 90 life ric’s and love them so far. I did get custom ear molds though and would say that’s 100% worth it.