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Originally Posted by 911 Rod
....but you need newer speakers because we all lose our low and high hearing as we age.
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That's probably accurate, but before any new equipment, I have
got to see what I'm up against.
Here's what happened. I was listening to "You and Your Friend" by Dire Straits, and it sounded terrific. But, Dire Straits has always been fussy about CD quality; that focus started with Brothers in Arms.
I put myself into my listening chair, started experimenting other reference material, and the songs that I know very well didn't sound as good - that includes a fairly recent remastering of DSOTM. I started moving my head into different positions, and was able to pick up new sounds, and that lead me to cupping my ears which was like an epiphany. I put Dire Straits back on and You and Your Friend through cupped ears sounded WAY GOOD; I was picking up fingernails on the string windings, light sweeps of cymbals and other various subtleties of the recording.
A check of google led me down the audiologist rabbit hole, and how cupping ears isn't a substitute for a good hearing aid for people with hearing loss. First, it looks silly, and second, hearing aids have come a long way