The modern stereo system

I have an HP oscillator and HP dB meter and I ran a sweep to see how high I could hear. I hit 12k and it just dropped off the radar but the dB meter still showed it was carrying on right through 20k. So I'm pretty tone deaf above 12k. I was tuning up an old Cassette deck and thought the heads were magnatized or shot but it was just me.

Which is why not everyone needs high end audio. We are all different.