Speakers and those things called ears. Protect your hearing at work and play. Every concert that results in ringing in your ears causes permanent damage.
For better or worse I have found it harder and harder to discriminate between excellent and more excellent equipment as I have aged. I can still appreciate subtle differences at the bottom end, but not the high end. For worse because i don’t get the same spine tingling chills i used to get from very high end systems, for better because I know longer throw good money after bad to achieve better and better sound. I just had a formal hearing test and my hearing is on the better side of what a typical 63 year old can hear, but everything above 12kHz is very depressed, confirming my subjective sense of what I no longer appreciate in great music systems.
TLDR - take care to protect your own cranial transducers….and good equipment will sound even better
Speakers and those things called ears. Protect your hearing at work and play. Every concert that results in ringing in your ears causes permanent damage.
For better or worse I have found it harder and harder to discriminate between excellent and more excellent equipment as I have aged. I can still appreciate subtle differences at the bottom end, but not the high end. For worse because i don’t get the same spine tingling chills i used to get from very high end systems, for better because I know longer throw good money after bad to achieve better and better sound. I just had a formal hearing test and my hearing is on the better side of what a typical 63 year old can hear, but everything above 12kHz is very depressed, confirming my subjective sense of what I no longer appreciate in great music systems.
TLDR - take care to protect your own cranial transducers….and good equipment will sound even better