I never thought my hearing was bad. Somehow I convinced myself that all the speakers in modern electronics produced poor audio, that my neighborhood had very few birds due to recent overdevelopment (even though it was fully developed 60 years ago), and that lots more people mumbled for mysterious reasons. My wife had enough and made me get checked out and … well long story short I have a pair of KS10s.
The first time I put them in I heard a lot of stuff but that didn’t bowl me over. I just thought ‘well sure, everythings a bit louder but that’s not that special’. It was when I took them out and half of all that was going on around me just disappeared and the rest sounded like I was listening to it through a pillow. That was a real ah-hah moment.
I’ve had them now for six weeks I think and even now sometimes I go into the app and push the mute button so I can get a real A/B comparison in a specific place. It’s striking. I’m glad my wife called me on my denial BS and made me get checked out. Life changing.