"Arny Krueger" wrote in message
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The price you pay for hearing loss in a comparison test, is loss of
ability
to hear small differences or hear time reliably.

"hear time" ?

But, that takes a pretty profound hearing loss.

Actually ANY hearing loss will decrease your dynamic range to some extent,
and usually in a non linear fashion wrt frequency.

A "profound loss" is considered about 50 - 60dB from memory, **FAR** more
than it takes to screw up your dynamics.
In most cases, by the time someone has a profound loss, they have almost no
ability to hear high frequencies at any level. And very limited dynamic
range at lower frequencies.

TonyP.