I have a friend that plays a mean guitar and he's the one that showed me that just about any serious guitarist uses Tube amplifiers.
This was a shock to me since they have a limit to how loud they can play.
If you like classic rock and thus electric guitar as the main musical instruments, it makes total sense that distortion is a part of music and that we are actually used to it.
I basically keep my Tube Buffer on all the time. I'll turn it off once in a while, when listening to vinyl but otherwise it stays on when using both of my CD players and for all music except Classical that I have learned to really like as I gotten older.
I can empathize with those losing there hearing as my Dad can't really hear the true highs anymore. All I can think of is to adjust a bit with the tone controls or buy speakers that use aluminum tweeters as they are usually really bright with the highs.
