@jl1ny
I’ll try to answer you here.
Once your hearing loss is fully accepted by you and you are not fixated on it, you will need to answer for yourself as to which direction you want to go with your audio listening habits. That said, for me, with whatever level of hearing disability that I have, I continue to enjoy listening to music. I moved into a newly built house in February of 22 and built my system from scratch after at least 17 years away from two channel listening. When I was a young teenager in the 1960’s one of my friend’s father had a full McIntosh system and I just fell in love with the sound. I also knew that McIntosh held value a bit better than some. I wanted fewer interconnects, so I purchased a McIntosh MA12000 and proceeded to sample speakers. The MA 12000 was purchased on my birthday, with my wife present and we both assumed that this would be the main expense incurred in building a system. I was living in Texas and my wife continued to live in California and I paid all credit card bills, so you know where this is going. I started auditioning speakers with the integrated and as I went up in price, the speakers just kept getting better. I finally reached my financial limit, because I still thought that I could limit the expense and purchased the Wilson Sabrina X. I purchased an iFi Zen Stream, Technics SL-1500G and Hana ML cartridge. I used the integrated phono section and DAC. Unfortunately, my system didn’t have what I identified as the musical quality of the system that I heard over 55 years ago…. When you look at my system, you will see that everything except for the integrated and speakers have been dramatically upgraded. Some changes involved multiple returns to Music Direct. My power conditioner and cords are now my most costly expense. The problem is that I could hear differences. My point being, I don’t hear what others hear, but I could hear differences when switching out power cables, interconnects, DACs, phono preamps and streamers. I can hear the difference between Ethernet cables. Now, I probably can’t hear fine differences and this might be why I upgraded to the top of the Shunyata line. I could hear a clear difference between their Venum NR and their premier cables. I now have a very musical system with lots of detail and to my taste vocals can be just stunning. So, for me, I can’t understand lyrics and I have a constant fairly loud ringing in my ears, but due to slow changes, I don’t focus on what I lack, but on what I still have. Unfortunately for me, this was a very expensive journey. I hope that this helps out.
@erik_squires
You bring up a good point. I think I will post a question related to hearing aids.
