This is THE answer (seriously):
Physical hearing parameters of a person that a machine can measure - tell you next to nothing of importance.
It's discernment which is all. The ability to ascertain nuance that younger minds & personalities have not the intuition to perceive. It's a matter of maturity & wisdom. If you've bothered to cultivate them you reap the fruits. Even if you haven't you usually to some degree have some extra measure of them, unavoidably.
It's not completely different (although more so in audio) from tastebuds being able to technically discern less as you age - yet if you've matured well & with some effort kept yourself perceptive & open-minded - the amount of nuance you can spot in food is far higher - even if the splashy extremes of spicy/sweet/tart, etc aren't so vivid. With your ears you don't need to concentrate to that degree, the cues are manifold & the lifetime of learning & practice amplify all the good things that more aggressively presented themselves when you were younger. Subtleties are hardly passive, inert things when you know their significance & how to let them register & trigger a depth of emotion - that was far more two-dimensional once. You hear more of significance - not less then.
Physical hearing parameters of a person that a machine can measure - tell you next to nothing of importance.
It's discernment which is all. The ability to ascertain nuance that younger minds & personalities have not the intuition to perceive. It's a matter of maturity & wisdom. If you've bothered to cultivate them you reap the fruits. Even if you haven't you usually to some degree have some extra measure of them, unavoidably.
It's not completely different (although more so in audio) from tastebuds being able to technically discern less as you age - yet if you've matured well & with some effort kept yourself perceptive & open-minded - the amount of nuance you can spot in food is far higher - even if the splashy extremes of spicy/sweet/tart, etc aren't so vivid. With your ears you don't need to concentrate to that degree, the cues are manifold & the lifetime of learning & practice amplify all the good things that more aggressively presented themselves when you were younger. Subtleties are hardly passive, inert things when you know their significance & how to let them register & trigger a depth of emotion - that was far more two-dimensional once. You hear more of significance - not less then.