It might sound silly to someone, but I have a reason to believe that I developed my tinnitus (ringing in the ear) shortly after I purchased my B&W 685 a few years ago.
I found that they had dip at around 3 kHz and I was listening to them with too much attention. Closer, fartehr away, toed-in, quite revealing `and strangely accentuating beats, cracking sounds, choire singing I used to listen, despite at low volume, too close trying to understand if that is comming from the tweeter, the midbass or the port.
After a while and night of sore throat and nose I woke up with a ringing in my ear that never stopped. The audiogram shows -10 db sensitivity drop at ~3kHz. My ears were trying to compensate for the dip probably.
It’s just my theory, I might be dead wrong, but I’m suspicious as my previous speakers used to have much more prominent upper mids. I used to have them for 30 years :)
Anyone else noticed something similar?
I found that they had dip at around 3 kHz and I was listening to them with too much attention. Closer, fartehr away, toed-in, quite revealing `and strangely accentuating beats, cracking sounds, choire singing I used to listen, despite at low volume, too close trying to understand if that is comming from the tweeter, the midbass or the port.
After a while and night of sore throat and nose I woke up with a ringing in my ear that never stopped. The audiogram shows -10 db sensitivity drop at ~3kHz. My ears were trying to compensate for the dip probably.
It’s just my theory, I might be dead wrong, but I’m suspicious as my previous speakers used to have much more prominent upper mids. I used to have them for 30 years :)
Anyone else noticed something similar?