Comments on Profile Post by Lyander

Keep a HD600 around. If you can still hear the peak with that headphone you are good.

Haha! Think I'm setting too high a standard worrying about my sensitivity to stuff in the "air" range? :P

Don't knock "air." I can remember when I could hear it. It does what it sort-of says: adds the ambience. I bet you can still hear it, unless you have really been mistreating your ears. I could hear it a countable number of years ago, and I am greatly older than you, and with hearing that has been declining much longer!

@Thad E Ginathom Oh I can certainly hear it, it's just that I'm worried because there was an upper treble spike on my cans that used to bother me, but now it doesn't, even at moderate volumes: https://superbestaudiofriends.org/index.php?threads/massdrop-fostex-th-x00-ebony-measurements.2434/

Used to pride myself on being sensitive to something so high up, haha.

Take care of your ears, especially in your youth when you really want stuff to be loud. Else you end up spending half of your life *needing* them to be loud.

But... maybe your brain's highly advanced eq system adjusted to that spike?

Well I got the Fostexes in Feb and they only stopped bothering me recently so...

But yeah. Invest in IEMs with a good seal to double as earplugs and don't crank the volume up (except maybe a teensy bit for really good songs).