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Don Pearce wrote:
On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 09:37:20 -0400, Mike Rivers
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On 3/31/2017 9:07 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
It's believable, but is it quantified accurately?
Get tested! Go to the AES show in the fall and get a free test if nothing else.


I'm not sure if they're still doing that. I don't remember if they had
the hearing test van at the last LA show, and I know it wasn't at the
last two LA NAMM shows. Maybe they still do it in Europe.


Probably giving too many people bad news - always shoot the messenger.


They were basically using the attendees as part of a long-term study, since
so many people came back to the show year after year. They developed a
database of many people with measurements made over something like a thirty
year period, for use in all kinds of long-term hearing studies. So it's not
like they were doing this entirely out of the goodness of their hearts.
--scott

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