Audiophilia and the Deaf.

[DSJR]

My Tinitus was made tons worse recently by a thoughtless headbanging headphone session a few weeks ago, the resulting lack of mid affecting my hearing badly for a good while. Now, the mid has mostly recovered, alowing me to listen to the Spendors again without wondering if they're faulty (the BC2 suffers from a laid back upper-mid compared to the level mid with boom that characterises the BC1, giving the BC2 a slight "loudness switch" or "saddleback" balance). I feel as if I have a permanent cold with "blocked-up" ear canals and the vet puts this down to adult "Glue-Ear" combined with loudness-abuse.. Ah well. I'm told the diuretic I take also has a big effect, but I'm too much of a coward to stop it for a week or so to confirm this.....

The one thing that most of us seem to have as we get older, is a bad reaction to distortion in the "glare" frequencies and I'm no exception. Whereas I used to love Naim style presentation in my youth and later, the deeply analytical tones of ATC active speakers, I now much prefer the gentle, but not very muffled "BBC Legacy" sound. I suspect that I'd love vintage Tannoys now, as the pepperpot freakouts at very high frequencies wouldn't be an issue especially - The current Turnberry's are sublime with an EAR 899 driving them...

Mezzo 2's eh? Are they on low stands? The dispersion of these 1960's designed models is very poor and the balance used to be set rather dull to get the ex-radiogram clients who liked a "nice tone." I didn't mind the Magnum K2 though, although the Ditton 44 and 66 were more my scene and both of these latter work well on a modern system.