Aging ears and Nuances

I’m 66 years old with a significant loss of hearing in the high frequencies. I have an excellent Audiologist that has helped me with getting fully programmable hearing aids with frequency corrections tailored to my specific hearing loss.  The Oticon aids also provide several programs to adjust to different listening environments including listening to music.  I still can enjoy critical listening sessions which is very important to me.  Highly recommend you find a quality Audiologist to assist you and never go cheap with your hearing.

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Have your audiologist create a specific music program

This is good advice. Check that your provider knows how to optimize a program for recorded music program and can tweak it as needed, for example after your brain gets used to the new device.

You can also use different domes. You might find a closed or partially closed dome is better for social situations or TV, and open is better for music.

At Costco, for an extra $60, you can get custom molded earpieces instead of domes. 

78 year old here. I certainly  have modest hearing loss & slight tinnitus in my left ear. I have taken advantage of the increased excellence in headphone listening. With top notch gear I can hear nuance, tonal shades, and spatial qualities. Headphone listening is a benefit for us old guys with loss of hearing acuity.

Dear Mashif, being a medical specialist in ENT, You are so right! We have a "musical memory". You need to have listened for several years to for example acusic music to learn to rember the special spectrum of frequences that identify each instrument. When you get older and start to loose the upper frequences, your brain only need to hear the caracteristics of a part of the full spectrum of a special instrument to recognise it and fill in the missing frequences. This is natures way of letting us enjoy our music up through our age. Electronic music however can vary in so many ways making it much more difficult to find a special spectrum of freqwuences for the "instrument"to remember.

You also need to deal with these facts when judging the HiFi reviews from eldery experienced HiFi experts. Are they really hearing all frequences or is the brain adding more or less...?