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   From: lcraver@home.ca   
      
   On 30 Aug 2013 00:17:00 GMT, "John F. Eldredge"    
   wrote:   
      
   >>>Of course, it you're around 20 years old, then you've got a bass speaker   
   >>>and the bass turned up so loud that all you hear is "boom, boom, boom"   
   >>>anyway .. and by the time you're old enough to actually want to hear the   
   >>>music, you'll be deaf as a post.   
   >>   
   >> And if you're 57 years old and in my position you may have 40% in your   
   >> left ear and 80% in your right. The doc insists it's genetic not the   
   >> result of anything I may have done in younger years which is amazing to   
   >> me but he was quite insistent on that point.   
   >   
   >Unless you grew up as part of a tribe of hunter-gatherers somewhere in   
   >the jungle, you have probably been exposed to amplified music and/or   
   >machine noise loud enough to cause some hearing loss.   
      
   I specifically made that point (OK well I didn't mention   
   hunter-gatherers) as a possible cause and was told no much to my   
   surprise.   
      
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