So if you want to be in a porno movie for any of the major producers down in the Valley, you have to present your regular AIDS test showing that you are negative. No AIDS sceening, no performance. I think we could learn alot from that mentality.

Here we have a hobby dedicated, in large part, to hearing. But, how many of us have had an audiogram in the last 6 months. How about the last year? 5 years? 10 years? Ever?

For the uninitiated, here is a quick blurb on what and audiogram is. I had an audiogram last week. It was a followup exam from the corrective ear surgery that I had before Christmas. Guess what? I was truly a deaf mutha-effer. I went from a range of -30 to -45db to no more than -5db across the board. And my tenitus is gone. It took awhile for my low frequency hearing to return, but it is back now that everything is healed.

My point is this. Hearing truly is a subjective thing, as exemplified by the objective audiogram. Everyone's ears are constructed differently, have different damage, or lack of damage, ect. ect. Accordingly, your speakers really do sound different to me than they do to you. We talk about frequency response curves and sensitivity. Well, your ears have their own frequency response curve and sensitivity and its different than mine. It is still important to get your in-room response as flat as possible, but that is why you can't do it by ear. Are you all excited that Dynaudio has matched their drivers within .5db? Me too. Dynaudio makes fine speakers, but there should at least be a recognition that your ears are not even matched within .5db.

I think that this is a part of the system that is overlooked too often. I know I lived by my hearing damage too long. I thought, "Oh well, it's the price I pay for too many live shows and too much unclean living." I was wrong. I was also much, much more deafer than I realized. It happened so slowly that I didn't trully notice how a bad it had become. If you haven't been to an ear doctor in awhile, if ever, you should go. Especially, if your someone that likes to bag on other peoples systems.

I think before you get to bag on someone elses system or experience, you have to produce an audiogram no more than 6 months old. We'll do it just like the porn stars do, except with audiograms... and without all the hot spicy anonymous sex that has no consequences...