My initial article never mentioned hearing aids but regardless if additional aids have to be worn the fact is all of us our hearing can change from day to day.
Not a criticism, the average person possibly would not notice these changes if they had not had the experience of years of listening to high quality sounds continually.
When I was involved in developing a new speaker. At weekends I would take a pair home for my wife to give her opinion, with no input from me until we discuss her comments, because most females have better hearing than us males.
This is so true Graham,
I have noticed for many years now, how I have worked to set up for a new song or style and come away from the session feeling extremely pleased with the result.
Going back to that setting at a later date, I have often wondered why I was so satisfied because there is much to improve still.
As I could probably be described as a perfectionist, I used to find this extremely annoying and It took some time to realise that this has always been the case with every keyboard I have owned.
Although I became certain that either my hearing or the way my brain translated it, was not a constant and varied from day to day, I did often wonder whether that affected just myself,
or whether others noticed this same variation in what they considered an ideal sound.
I would not have put it into writing for others in case they thought I was a bit weird but fortunately, you Graham, have had the courage to voice exactly what I have always thought.
I am partially deaf (it runs in our family) and use hearing aids for special occasions but, in normal life I don't like to wear them because I prefer to live in a quiet world.
I have never worn aids when playing my keyboards but always play using headphones when at home.
Although it has nothing to do with hearing, I used to be a keen runner and was always aware that some days, it was so easy to do a good speed over quite a long distance and,
on other days, covering the same run in the same time, was equivalent to an Olympic challenge, leaving me shattered, when I had been as fresh as a daisy previously.
It would be interesting to hear an audiologist's view on our hearing variations from day to day.
After all these years, I can still feel annoyed when I feel disappointed in my own work and know it's down to this strange phenomena in my hearing.
Thanks for raising the subject Graham