Does treble response beyond my hearing matter?

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Does treble response beyond my hearing matter?
« on: 13 Mar 2014, 10:03 pm »
I don't know where to post this so I am putting it here.

Been thinking about getting my hearing checked.  Used to get it checked annually when I was in the Air Force, but that's been a couple of decades ago. 

Thinking about making some changes in my system so when looking at speakers, does treble response beyond my hearing matter?

Norman Tracy

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Re: Does treble response beyond my hearing matter?
« Reply #1 on: 14 Mar 2014, 03:31 am »
In my experience the answer to your question is "yes it does".

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Re: Does treble response beyond my hearing matter?
« Reply #2 on: 14 Mar 2014, 09:34 am »
Somebody posted a link on AC a few months ago for a quicky frequency hearing test.

Some vendors extol the value of harmonics well beyond 20,000 Hz, but I've not read of anything definitive and not sure what recordings are available that go beyond that anyway.  Seems to me that you'd have to have your source and amps capable of the same before you could take advantage of such speakers.  And even if you had all that, would it be a good thing or bad (revealing somehow hidden warts)? 

In my mind the bigger issue is:  Do audiophiles really want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?  I think not.  We want entertainment, in various forms to suit our individual tastes (unlimited dynamics/sound pressure levels, extreme detail, hyper realistic, room filling sound staging, powerfully deep bass, musically satisfying, lush/warm/exaggerated/whatever tainted sound).

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Re: Does treble response beyond my hearing matter?
« Reply #3 on: 14 Mar 2014, 12:58 pm »
In my experience the answer to your question is "yes it does".

Can you explain how it would matter beyond his hearing - assuming he's the primary, and often, the sole listener?  (I'm not being snarky.  I'm about as green as they come to this sensory entertainment, and this is just my second post.)