Older And Wiser or just Tighter and Deafer?

+1 chrisoshea

I am 64.   My hearing is nearly flat to 15khz.  As a child/teen, my hearing went out to 20-30Khz, probably due to my asthma (bronchial conditions in children often result in hearing high frequencies).  Unfortunately, I also was bothered by buzzing high frequencies in lights that others couldn't hear.

I have found that my left ear lobe at the top has a curl to it which my right ear lobe doesn't have.  The left ear hears a less open, darker sound than the right.  When I unbend the lobe, sound is identical in both ears (and more open).  Plastic surgery would permanently result in more open sound on one side.  I don't plan to do that.  Similar to my eyesight.  My left eye has always had a neutral color rendition.  My right eye is my primary vision eye and has a darker color rendition.  Together, a nice balance.  I would never want to live with the left eye only vision. 

That's life.  As to equipment, I only want to upgrade my main speakers but they will cost $35K to $75K (Von Schweikert VR6 MKII or VR55s.  I can live with my Focus speakers just fine in the meantime.  I am satisfied with the rest of my system (but it took a looong time get it and the my room to make me satisfied).  

80 percent deaf in one ear , almost sold everything ,then I turned on the music one day and was happy to have the other, amen.

oregonpapa, I really like that quote, "... discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons." Very good quote!  Thank you !  

Reminds me of one I committed to memory:
Sow a thought, reap an act
Sow an act, reap a habit,
Sow a habit, reap a lifestyle,
Sow a lifestyle, reap a destiny.  

Whoa, dude! Heavy! 😬