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In Reply to: RE: Is there a missing "WOW!" switch in the generation in their 40's and below ?.. posted by chopper87@aol.com on October 19, 2011 at 08:11:09:
I still get up to about 15 kHz, maybe a bit above -- I can still hear the mosquito, anyway. The thing is, I don't think it's just a matter of cutoff frequency, but of sensitivity, and the Fletcher-Munsen curves, as well. When I was a kid, those frequencies really were important to me. Cutting off frequencies above 15 kHz as in FM stereo was like putting a blanket over the sound. Now, those frequencies just don't seem to have the subjective importance to me that they used to. FM stereo sounds just fine.
Another way I think about it is that as a boy, I remember once hearing the 15,750 Hz flyback squeal from a TV that had been turned on five stories beneath me. When I was in my 30's, I could still hear it, and it was sometimes annoying, but it was nothing like the awful scream and pressure I remember from my earlier years. Now I'm not sure I could hear it if I tried.
So -- if I were describing the sound of a component to a young man or a woman -- mightn't I be missing something that would be important to them, that while it's just one facet of the sonic experience is a larger facet for them than it is for me?
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