The Absurdity of it All

The best ears in the world are old musicians and especially healthy  orchestra maestros of 80 years old...

A thing i dont understand is the "doubt"  about  their experience feeling  by many....

Clean all doubts about your own hearing abilities and listen with relaxation and trust...

I am 70 years old with an average hearing degradation for my age...

I created devices and hundreds of changes in my system, and fine tune by ears my 32 tubes and pipes mechanical equalizer.... It takes times...

I never think that i had a good listening power over other people before and in fact i am pretty sure that my ability are very average....

BUT I TRUST MY EARS COMPLETELY and listen relaxed after each of my experiments....

I listen to my feeling, is it good? Is it bad? is it an improvement.... And i trust my feeling on the spot without even thinking....We listen with our BODY not only our ears, then trust your feeling without inner contestation.... Simply listen, relax, open your ears body and soul, let the feeling emerge with the sound and corresponding to the sound and you will know without error this si such or such  for me.... Simple...

After all that my system is so good for me, nothing will give me the insane costly  idea to upgrade.... All that make a system perfect, for sure on a degree which is the degree of optimal sound quality for what i have in ratio S.Q/price...But NO youtube costly system trash completely mine even the more costly.... They are better sometimes on all counts but not so much better and often they are non musical, harsh, fatiguing etc....

My Sansui amplifier or Mission cyrus speakers are not the top os the scale and NOTHING will change that...

But my system is so rightfully embedded  i feel no desire at all to buy anything at any cost.... I only listen any music forgetting sound....I can even  because  it is fun to do, times to times, new listening experiments....but i had already reach the limit of possible improvements.... It is only playing...I play relaxed...

My best to all....

The best ears in the world are old musicians and especially healthy orchestra maestros of 80 years old...

Best at what? This is quite a statement. What do you have to back it up and that describes exactly what they are best at?  I don't think you can support this statement, and I am quite certain you can't support it as a universal statement.

If you're ears aren't what they once were, your best friends are increased dynamic range, focus, detail and a more defined space between the notes."

Except you don't possess the same ability to hear dynamic range you once did, and turning it louder, only gives temporary relief but hastens the decline. You likewise will never get the high frequencies back, no matter what you do. Without the ability to hear as quiet of notes, and inability to compensate by cranking it even louder, you have now lost the ability to hear detail too, and putting more into the music, does not allow you to hear more if you are already at the limit.  Refined space between the notes is interesting, that would be more an acoustics things, fast decay to reduce instantaneous complexity, because your brain is also a bit slower.


Don't worry, it is not all bad. Music is mostly under 10K, and almost all the acoustic cues for position are at even lower frequencies. Best thing about older, is usually less distracted and more time to relax and enjoy and to the point, actually listen, not just hear.

dletch2

This is quite a statement. What do you have to back it up and that describes exactly what they are best at? I don't think you can support this statement, and I am quite certain you can't support it as a universal statement.

It's an opinion, just as yours is. There is as much to support his opinion as yours. Geez

Best at what? This is quite a statement. What do you have to back it up and that describes exactly what they are best at? I don’t think you can support this statement, and I am quite certain you can’t support it as a universal statement.

No, it is not an opinion, it is a universally accepted fact that maestros perceive and direct music even better with age in normal conditions...

But my affirmation is valid in a world where perceiving is a QUALITY and a learning process, not a QUANTITY and a machine expertise who translate pitch in frequencies...

But for you qualities are epiphenomenon reducible to quantities; pitch EQUAL frequencies and is not a simple correlation, nothing else.... Then all maestro are semi deaf old dudes that put a show and they will be replaced by A.I. The brain is  ONLY a computer effecting Fourrier analysis after all....

Is it not?