Something Millercarbon has preached Be A Better Listener. Do not get mired in data.

@mapman and @oldhvymec you all crack me up!

My chickens are plotting mapman, you better be careful. They may pass on the salmonella express to your local supply route. Chickens are devious figuring on an early retirement. How hard could it be to lay an egg, I passed quite a few kidney stones.. Women or chickens got nothing on me.. 

Regards

Chickens aside, learning how to listen, learning the vocabulary of sound is critical in the enjoyment of high end audio. My partner of 35 years has always had much better hearing than I… she is a girl. She always to differs to me to explain what she hears. We both clap our hands over our ears when hearing high resolving systems with distortion, but she differs to me because I have highly developed listening skills. Listening skills trump small differences in hearing.

Well, at least someone's got the gender pronouns right.

This last part of the article says it all...

We listen also with our own integrated history, we dont listen to sound, we listen to meaning...

Only inexperienced people in acoustic think they listen to the pure "sound" measured in hertz.. A perceived  timbre is like a human face....Not like an equation...

Thanks for the link....

Years ago, Anthony Cordesman (known to readers as "AHC" in his capacity as a reviewer for the absolute sound)let it be known that he regularly invited hearing-impaired people to participate with him as a review panel in evaluating High-End audio products. Even though challenged in some aspects of the hearing process, he found that they could still differentiate between better and worse gear and that their contribution was both valid and valuable. Limitation of their ability to hear, according to him, apparently did little to limit their ability to listen, and listening was by far the more important ability.