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Have you tried matching a stereo to your hearing?

Have you ever had a hearing test done to determine your actual hearing curve? It is my understanding that the average human hearing range is essentially an arc that tails off at high and low frequencies, but isn't necessarily a smooth line. It might be possible to tune a system to compensate for dips or peaks in ones personal hearing. It might sound terrible to everyone else, but perfect for you.

Has anyone ever tried or thought about this concept? I wonder how similar the hearing curve is for people that commonly enjoy a particular system above all else.
mceljo
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kijanki
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Mceljo - Speaker might have perfect frequency characteristic measured with individual tones but horrible sound (phase shifts, wrong harmonics summing).
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unsound
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Elizabeth, with all due respect, I beg to differ. Don't many use different corrective lenses to compensate for different viewing circumstances? Don't many listen in the dark? Why not hear things the way they were meant to be heard, rather than in an otherwise distorted fashion, when a remedy might be readily available? I suspect customizable equalization might be a better route, than trying to find a distorted system to compensate for human error. Of course customizable high fidelity hearing aids might be the best remedy.
mceljo OP
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I suspect a problem with doing it, assuming an sensitive enough EQ was available, would be the recorded media would likely be mixed based on the sound engineers hearing so every recording would be different.

On a more macro scale, could the speakers be adjusted left vs. right for people with hearing problems in one ear? There is at least one forum member that has very different left and right channel speakers with this very issue.
unsound
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Considering how poorly some of today's pop recordings are made, Mceljo might have a very legitimate concern.:-)
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