Originally Posted by 370Zsteve

This explains why it will never be an issue for me at my age, heh heh:

>>>The range of hearing for a healthy young person is 20 to 20,000 hertz. The hearing range of humans gets worse with age. People lose the ability to hear sounds of high frequency as they get older. The highest frequency that a normal middle-aged adult can hear is only 12-14 kilohertz. Also, the hearing range for men worsens more quickly than the hearing range for women. This means that women will have the ability to hear notes of higher pitch than men of the same age do. <<<

It also explains why quite often I don't hear my wife yacking