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The Absurdity of it All

50-60-70 year old ears stating with certainty that what they hear is proof positive of the efficacy of analog, uber-cables, tweaks...name your favorite latest and greatest audio "advancement." How many rock concerts under the bridge? Did we ever wear ear protection with our chain saws? Believe what you will, but hearing degrades with age and use and abuse. To pontificate authority while relying on damaged goods is akin to the 65 year old golfer believing his new $300 putter is going to improve his game. And his game MAY get better, but it is the belief that matters. Everything matters, but the brain matters the most.
jpwarren58
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roxy54
7,639 posts
 
What is your point; that only 2 year olds are qualified to make judgements on the sound of reproduced music? Yes, absurd...
petg60
1,486 posts
 
Hearing degrades as does brain. But still you can tell if something sounds right or wrong to you.
And still you note that his game may get better, strange.
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chayro
2,922 posts
 
Well, we seem to put our faith in the elderly for quite a bit nowdays, so why not in audio?
teo_audio
2,197 posts
 
An arbitrary decision that it somehow must be a bunch of old stubborn guys who are the only ones hearing such things.

Falling to recall, or understand, that these people were also younger when they discovered this and heard it.

that it is not some sort of late in life discovery and some form of weird 'old man insistence' of being right.

Ok. Sure. Whatever.

If attempting to use logic, one must use the entire package and all data, not just selective projected bits of each. Otherwise the answers and conclusions are as inaccurate as the question posed.
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