How are your ears doing?

[HoochieMamma]

15Hz

[riceBox]

Can here only up to 12 KHz. Not sure if its due to my headphones.

[MikeChipshop Member]

I'm 32 and maxed out at 14.

I did spend most of my former life playing in punk bands so i'm please i done as well as i did! :p

[mbowman]

im 21 and can hear 17khz, I blame my rubbish 99p headphones :wacko:

[Phouchg]

Firstly:

- no, one absolutely cannot hear 20 kHz and above even on Marantz, Yamaha, Grado with Denon's thousand-dollar cables. It's humanly impossible.

A couple things:

- integrated sound card DACs have a steep roll-off at 15 kHz already, some even less (doesn't apply to digital output), anything else is static

- most consumer speakers have a steep roll-off between 18 and 20 kHz, only high-end have it higher

- these samples are encoded at a rate of 48 kHz, thus don't produce a pure sine wave. All other waveforms can be heard more easily because of harmonics

- peaks of these samples are around -10 dB and additionally they're played at 60% volume, effectively artificially reducing your capability to hear them

- on Windows XP or older (unless ASIO is used) KMixer downsizes 16-bit output to 14-bit, reducing dynamics to -92 dB and introducing distortion

I call this test and results above (and any such test on a home computer) total dingo's kidneys.

Oh, right... 23, 17 kHz, on headphones

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Posting here so I can come back to this later :)

[strelok1911]

18 and up to 17khz

[44MLX]

I am 18, and got to 18 kHz.

[MarkusDarkus]

I'm 28 and I got up to 19k on my laptop in a noisy server room. Doubt I could get any higher in an ideal acoustic environment as the rolloff was quite dramatic at 18k

[MightyJordan]

I'm 20, and I only managed to hear up to 15KHz, and I had to turn the volume right up to hear it. Not a good sign, as I'm studying to potentially work in a recording studio! :laugh:

I was using Shure SRH840 headphones, BTW, and they have a frequency range of 5Hz - 25KHz, so I didn't even get close to their limit. :p

[ozgeek]

I'm 30 year old and while wearing my hearing aids (I'm profoundly deaf)

I could hear:

8KHz (a soft high pitched sound only heard in my right ear)

22KHz (low rumbling like sound hearable in both ears.)

If I take my aids off:

8kHz (same as above only in my right ear)

12kHz (very loud pitch)

Stange I can't hear most sounds without my aids on.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

With the higher frequencies I'm not sure if I can hear them or if it's my brain playing tricks on me, so tentatively I'd say I can hear up to 18KHz.

[Hum]

Dog whistles make me howl.

I can hear a mouse fart.

[+jamesyfx Subscriber²]

Also, I must add... the dog went barking mad when I was playing the higher frequencies. O.o

[Flippinwindows]

I was shocked I could hear 21 kHz at age 25. I've always was told I'd lose my hearing if I continued to listen to huge volumes of music or gaming sounds. I think my eyes are going a bit bad though.

[Alberto_R2]

I'm 24 and I could hear all, some where annoying and others seem almost noiseless (specially 20kHz, very low hum).

[+Majesticmerc MVC]

25, and 16KHz. I feel so average :p

[remixedcat]

I can hear up to 37,000Hz. I was tested by a team of sound experts

26, soon to be 27 this month.

[curme]

Im 40 and made it up to 12HZ

[pack34]

25 and 14 kHz very faintly, 12 comes through clear. Damn hockey injury :p

I wish they also had an assortmentt of the lower frequencies. That's where my hearing is really bad.

[firey]

23, could hear 17, couldn't hear 18 though speakers.

[scaramonga]

49 here and 15 is MAX through headphones.

[ArialBlue]

I get enough ringing in my ears, but I can go up to 16hz (early twenties, or as I like to call them early horny years)

[threetonesun]

29, I got up to 18, but it was faint. I tried this test when I was younger and I could hear 20 so clearly.... :cry:

[123456789A]

I heard 16 clearly, nothing at 17.

My cat heard up to the highest. She kept looking at the speakers when I played 22.