Is it too bright or is it high resolution?

Better hearing based on sex is a myth...... our household has been a living experiment in this regard with my wife 9 months younger than myself, and our fraternal twins - boy and girl.

In listening tests over the years, the results are usually the same as far as order, best to worst.

1) son 2) daughter 3) me 4) wife

Now what I do feel might be tainting the results is that I think my son is cheating, and my wife could care less. I am 55 and can still make out 17khz on a good day.

This video imo helps to prove that hearing is more than a sex thing; it is also based on many factors, and variables including lifestyle, health, heredity, occupation etc....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHWY1KBHwc

So IMO, in order to determine what a person means by bright or high resolution; I feel one needs to understand what their hearing ability is to begin with.

I could hear the 16khz tone in this video - how bout you phd, others ?

Funny stuff!!!

Maybe I'm the odd man out, but I'd give anything for my wife to sound brighter and more detailed.

LOL

soix & gregkohanmim that's about  the funniest posts I have read yet on Audiogon, hilarious. What is even more compelling is that there seems to be some glimmer of truth to it.

Every human ear is different. No two are alike. The brain receives impulses from tiny hairs growing in a snail inside your head. The size, shape and length of hairs are different in every ear.  It really is amazing just how much we can agree. Traditionally men loose their hearing from working in loud environments, shooting guns, and playing in rock bands. If you've done none of those things, then your hearing can be every bit as good as a woman of your age, unless she has been doing those things. 

'Bright', HO, seems to go 'mano e mano' with resolution.  Speed in response of the given radiator is another factor....

Just another 'balancing act' with everything involved.  One item in a given system could effect the overall performance....or what I gather from the various topics pursued in the forums here @  AG.....