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Subject: Re: hearing impairment, etc.
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Date: 14 Sep 90 13:11:59 GMT
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|                                         This bring up an interesting point:
| many of the venerated figures in hi-fi are well past their middle years;
| what does that say about their ability to *hear* audio equipment?  Any
| thoughts on this?
| --
| Peter Chen
| pwyc@pueblo.ATT.COM

I have thought about this too. Producers like Quincy Jones and his lead 
recording engineer Bruce Sweiden(sp?) are in there late 50's/early 60's.

It might also be the concept that if you don't use it you loose it. They
use their hearing in a critical way for many years everyday. It could also 
be that not everyone's hearing deteriorates in the same way. I have seen on talk
shows people interviewed who are 100 years old or older and they didn't
have to be shouted at to be heard. Yet, some people as early as their
60's you have to almost shout for them to hear you.

I think it is safe to assume that listening at lower volumes can only do you 
good.  I have read in articles on mixing that it's better to do the mixing at 
low volume levels since if everything can be heard at that level then when it
is turned up it will sound even better. 

In article <6220@uwm.edu>, bilver!bill@uunet.UU.NET (Bill Vermillion) writes:
| 
| [...]
| The general consensus among those in the business is not how good your
| hearing is, but how well you listen, or learned to listen.
  

I think this sums up perhaps what I was trying to say.

I'm a trumpet player who has asthma but the asthma has not gotten in
the away of my trumpet playing and I think it has more to do with the
way I approach the instrument and the instruction I have received.
It's learning to use what you got!

David