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Note that human hearing frequency response changes with age: https://journalotohns.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40...

So headphone makers also have to target an age group, or at least average things out so it’s not right for anyone.

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Except that the argument here was about bass, and the paper shows that age dependent hearing frequency response varies mostly in the mid-high range.

This is true, I sometimes refer to my Grados headphones as "my first hearing aid"

Eh, I was responding to someone wondering why the singular curve used was wrong. My point was that there is no universal answer that works for every individual, even if you are opinionated about how things should sound.

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