Presbycusis differs between men and women as hearing ages

Evidence

2 Average hearing change with age: The first few section of the chorale prelude used in Track 73 has been filtered to allo w the average effect of aging , or presbycusis, to be illustrated acoustically for men and women aged (in years) 20 (no di fference), 60 and 80 based on th e data plott ed in Figur e 2.11. Track has five snippets: (1) male or female aged 20; (2) female aged 40; (3) male aged 40; (4) female aged 60; (5) male aged 60. — David Howard, Jamie Angus, coustics and Psychoacoustics, 2953

Categorization

• SHARE: Worth sending to an audiologist or audio engineer friend — the sex-differentiated presbycusis filtering is a niche acoustics detail.