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Re: Do we all hear the same thing?

Author: Caroline Smale
Date: 2015-01-27 00:11

Can we ever truly know?

I suppose that the fact that in general the public are often drawn to similar perormances of certain music tends to indicate that there is not generally a wide discrepancy.

I know that when I was 20 I could clearly hear above 20 Kc/s (not Hertz back then) and in a recent audiology test my response was well down even at 8KHertz. However in the intervening 50 odd years my taste for sound quality has remained virtually unchanged. I didn't like the dull dark sounds some players were making in the 1950s and I still am not fond of the current trend for similarly dark/dank tones.

But am I hearing what others hear? I can't be sure.

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