Hearing loss. How much do you care about your ability to hear?


Partly inspired by stories such as Huey Lewis tour cancellation due to hearing loss and my own admission I had to get tested and now wear hearing aids.
Much discussion is made about equipment, room acoustics, wiring and noise. But how about your ability to hear well? Do you ever think about it? How much have you done for your own hearing health?
Also, how much do YOU think this affects your ability to evaluate quality sound?
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I’m a Month shy of 65 and have been wearing hearing aids for over four years. Hearing loss can be an invisible event with a person not realizing how much has occurred. I’ve told this story before, my equip didn’t sound right so I hauled it to Music Technology which gave it all the ok. Anyway I called Bill Thallman and mentioned that my equip still sounded not right. Anyway imagine this, he comes to my house and puts his ear to my GMA Europa tweeter and says that there was plenty of energy coming through. I could not hear it. Hearing test and the aids followed.
Over 50, think about going to Costco and get a free hearing test (not affiliated with them). Or at an audiologist that you feel can be trusted. The hearing aid tech changes constantly and for the better. Music now sounds wonderful.