Are you inferring that you suffer from normal age-related hearing loss of high frequencies?
I had not given any prior thot to hearing lose but you do have a good point. Here is an analogy I have used which relates to the use of staccato when playing a saxophone. Base reference is Mike Shappiro or Mike Sharp. Author of song Spooky, made famous by Atlanta Rhythm something or other. Section maybe. Anyway, most sax players, when seeing the command staccato in a music score, will go to great lengths to put a sharp, right angle decay on the notes commanded to be played staccato. Shappiro would put an ever so small "round over" on a staccato note. Almost an inconceivable difference, but there is a difference to be detected if one listens for it. Equate a staccato note to the square edge of a piece of 1 by lumber material. That wood can come to a point where the face of the board stops and the perpendicular edge begins. This transition takes not even a micrometer to occur. What Shappiro does is, ever so lightly, touch that face to edge transition with very fine sandpaper and roll the transition. Taking it from a knife edge to an almost in-perceivable blunt edge. Blunt is a little strong but I hope I made the point. I find the slower transition more pleasant than the instantaneous change. I find it more pleasing in both the way my ear receives the note as well as the vibrations felt by my non-audio receptors ( bones, skin, etc. ). In reality, I can not prove that I am in a wake state or if I am in a dream state and asleep. For that matter, I have no empirical evidence that I, you, or anything even exists in some solid state form of matter, so these writings are to be taken with a grain of salt, and maybe a shot of single malt.