when your hearing is not as good as it was . . .

Yes, I have Jabra Essence Select hearing aids, but it is less fatiguing to listen to music at home w/out wearing them. They are good hearing aids, but "high fidelity' is not their purpose. I appreciate the comments about adding an equalizer to the system. Thanks

you can use it to your advantage:

No need to get expensive equipment or listening to it and tweaking and upgrading it. You will only listen to just music.

This doesn’t directly answer your question. At 63 I’m certain that my hearing isn’t as good as it once was, but I’m also fairly certain that I’m better at recognizing problems areas within a system. I’m a more experience and more patient listener than I once was too. Hearing is a sense, but listening is a skill, and it can be honed with practice and experience. Even if I can’t hear above 10K, the vast majority of music occurs within a range that I can hear.

While I’ve done nothing to my system intentionally to make up for any hearing loss, I have gone after several minor knit picks over the years by trusting my ears, and now have what I feel is better sound across the board.

FWIW, it ain’t the same kind of sound as you’d get in a high quality 2 speaker system properly set up, but a good set of headphones, amp, and source can go a long way in getting you a sound were you can hear those HF’s you are losing.

Other than that my experience mirrors knotscott. BTW, I tried high quality hearing aids and did not like them at all with audio systems, I’d rather have the reduced highs than endure the hearing aid artifacts.

We all loose high frequencies perception with aging ...

But music and even sound qualities are first qualities , meanings, non linear wholeness which are not contained in the Hertz -decibel number linear windows and map ...

My ears had lost their acuity as it is normal for 72 years but i can perceive very distinctly minute differences in sound qualities because they are meaningful for me ...

If i was wrong , audiophiles passed 35 years old must give back their club membership because passed over 35 we perceive :