hearing loss and amp choices

@ secretguy...Lol and wonder how many other "secrets" you may have missed.

Critical listening to music (or what us audiophiles enjoy with our audio gear) and having a known hearing loss in one ear is like driving a Ferrari with 1 flat tire. Yeah you can change the suspension on one side or pick flatter roads to drive the car on...but in the end the tire is the real problem and you will not realize the full potential of the Ferrari. I bought Resound GN hearing aids and it was the best improvement to my audio system in years

My two cents.

@arro222 

I've lived all my adult life with about 50% hearing loss in my right ear.  Scar tissue from chronic ear aches as a child.  My brain doesn't recognize the loss.  I hear perfect stereo image and enjoy my sytem fully.  I only notice the loss if I plug my left ear.  If you hear the music, just enjoy it.  Did you feel you were missing anything before they told you there was a hearing loss?  The brain is a wonderful thing and will compensate for so many issues.

@bigtwin

I dunno. My amp tanked months before that.

You do raise a point. I thought the highly articulated amp sterile even then and I’m sure my hearing didn’t go south just now. The only reason I had the hearing test in the first place is to have ruled out why i was feeling dizzy w no blood pressure issues. So they gave me the mri to rule out tumor and then the subsequent hearing test. They think it was a residual of covid I had back in Nov. calling it some kind of nerve edema. Still haven’t gotten full taste and smell as yet.

Coming to conclusion sometimes takes the plethora of contributors for the op to come to meaning.

Of course the brain is the "it" of hearing. My tinnitus is not an ear issue as much as a brain short circuit.

I will go forth and assimilate to the directions and suggestions this thread has provided.

Thank you

i will be 71 years old in few weeks...

Probably my hearing is not what i had younger... 😁😊

Nevermind, i tuned my room by ears...( 100 Helmholtz resonators) And younger i would not have been able to do it because of a lack of attention and lack of confidence in myself...

Dont mind about any lost of hearing, especially if it is not a big one loss...

People who feel that sound impressions are only figure out by measured Hertz frequencies capabilities test are ignorant...

The brain like say bigtwin is the organ of perception about the sound not only the ears isolated from him:

I’ve lived all my adult life with about 50% hearing loss in my right ear. Scar tissue from chronic ear aches as a child. My brain doesn’t recognize the loss.

And anyway music is certainly not just sound...

Remember that some people with full hearing are unable to figure out this truth at all...

From some cars passing in our streets we know by experience that some people really think that music is perceived by the body mainly, especially bass frequencies... They are not wrong at all but.... 😁😊

«We hear meaning and dont call that an illusion»-Anonymus audiologist playing violin