WOW - who knew LPs were such a flawed medium for recording and playing music. I'm taking my entire record collection to Tower Records and selling it for $10. Oh wait, I did that 25 years ago.
Never mind.
Never mind.
Last song on most LP's pressed with compression
"Normal hearing loss due to aging consists of a gradual decrease in high frequency sensitivity over time. The chart is from Modern Sound Reproduction by Harry F. Olson. It shows the average hearing loss Vs age for men and women at frequencies from 250 Hz to 8000 Hz. This means that for a man at age 35, sensitivity is down about 11 dB at 8000 Hz. For a woman at that age, sensitivity is down only about 5 dB. This varies, of course, from person to person but we can infer that sensitivity is down even further at 20kHz." The accompanying graph is frightening with HF hearing loss increasing (or is it decreasing?) by about 10 db per decade. Makes me think I should really only be buying subwoofers from here on out :) http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm |