How are your ears doing?

[scaramonga]

If I switch my 'selective hearing' off I can just make 17 mind you, but I like to keep it on most times as the wife is around. ;)

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

I can clearly hear 17khz. 18khz and above, I have to turn up my headphones 100%, and even then, it's only faint.

[AlexTan]

25, max 17 kHz at 80% volume on Philips SHE 9800 earphone.

[Seizure1990]

Is this legit? I've done some terrible things to my hears, and I can hear it all the way up to 20khz.

Even odder, I'm not even sure if I can actually hear 19khz, and if I do, it's barely, yet I can hear 20khz clearly.

[Draconian Guppy]

Hmmm this needs to have a "standard" volume...

[123456789A]

Hmmm this needs to have a "standard" volume...

Oh you're right. My hearing got "better" when I turned it up some more.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

35 and can hear 17 pretty decent.

Can hear the clicks on 18, 19. Just the clicks though.

I am not sure how good and reliable this test is, as I know for sure my hearing is not the best.

I grew up playing in metal/punk bands since I was 12 years old, and we never wore earplugs. Only started wearing them in my early 30's in the last band I was in.

The reason I do not think this test is all that real, is because of the aforementioned bands I have played in, combined with a really bad infection, I actually went to an ear doctor in my early 20's.

I had 40% loss in my left ear and 15% loss in my right ear, and again I was in my early 20's. I never went back to an ear doctor as truthfully speaking, I am scared to find out how much worse it has gotten since then.

So yeah, take it with a grain of salt IMHO.

[ThePitt]

17 kHz

[|Rapture|]

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

26, soon to be 27 this month.

:rofl:

[+Xinok Subscriber²]

Is this legit? I've done some terrible things to my hears, and I can hear it all the way up to 20khz.

Even odder, I'm not even sure if I can actually hear 19khz, and if I do, it's barely, yet I can hear 20khz clearly.

It really depends on the headphones / speakers, many aren't rated to go above 16-20khz and when pushed above that, they may not reproduce the sound correctly. I have these Sennheiser headphones which can supposedly go up to a ridiculous 38khz.

[Andre S. Veteran]

I have fairly high-grade speakers and a microphone, so I simply recorded my speaker output through the mic. It's no surprise few people can hear above 17khz because the volume levels for the highest frequencies are barely above the noise level for a silent room with only a relatively silent computer in it. In other words it's very inconsistent. Also as pointed out previously, high frequencies at a sample rate of 48khz are far from pure.

For a real test you'd need a real frequency generator (one that doesn't resample) and to normalize the output levels.

Oh and I'm 24 and I can't hear above 15khz. 15khz is already quite faint. I blame 16 years of playing the piano for that. :(

[remixedcat]

well mine was done professionally becuase I kept hearing things and nobody else could hear (very unpleasant sounds) it everyone thought I lost my mind but I got a hearing test and that's what they said. It's very annoying.

That was done a few years ago it might have changed a bit but I still have it prolly more like 28,000Hz right now, but yeah I cannot stand to be around older electronics and basements of older houses becuase of this.

I avoid going to a couple chain restaurants becuase some of those have that sound emanating from somewhere.

but yeah it's very annoying hearing very high pitched sounds further then others

[SierraSonic]

I could hear 17k at normal volume, and 18k just barely with my speakers almost maxed... any higher and even though my speakers made a noise, i didn't hear the wavelength, just them moving.

I'm turning 25 soon. :o

[P!P]

I have Bose headphones and I can 17Khz at normal volume, I can hear 18Khz if I turn it up a bit. I'm 23.

[onionjuice]

I'm 17 and I could hear up to 20k. Laptop speakers volume high.

[Biotoxic_hazard_835]

I'll be 44 on Thursday and was able to hear up to 15.

[remus_lupin]

Age 19

I heard 18khz as clear as I heard any of the others below it.

19 Khz I don't seem to have heard anything. Bummer.

[+Warwagon MVC]

Most humans cannot hear past 20! At your age that would put your hearing at superhuman levels! Sorry, but I seriously doubt that you can hear those higher frequencies!

I'm 53 and can hear 16 clearly and I am almost sensing something at 17, perhaps I am imagining that I can, not sure!

I'm 32 and I heard all of them. I had problems hearing past 17 at normal volume (Then again I forgot to turn the speakers up) but once I put the ipod ear buds in I heard all of them. This might be because I wear ear protection when I use the lawn mower and snow blower. Back when I was in high school I could tell if the TV was on in the kitchen on mute from the next room just by the high pitch sound the TV made when it was turned on.

[dnast]

I have fairly high-grade speakers and a microphone, so I simply recorded my speaker output through the mic. It's no surprise few people can hear above 17khz because the volume levels for the highest frequencies are barely above the noise level for a silent room with only a relatively silent computer in it...

Thanks for that. I knew something was wrong. I could hear 17KHz very clearly and it was pretty loud, too, even though the speakers were turned down pretty low. Then I went to 18KHz and didn't hear anything until I turned up the volume quite a bit. I'm at a friend's house so I thought it was just these cheap speakers or the integrated audio.

I'm in my lower 30s and got to 18KHz for this test and this poor sound setup.

[Seizure1990]

It really depends on the headphones / speakers, many aren't rated to go above 16-20khz and when pushed above that, they may not reproduce the sound correctly. I have these Sennheiser headphones which can supposedly go up to a ridiculous 38khz.

Well, to be honest, I'm not actually sure of my speakers' rating, but I'm inclined to believe they're better then the standard 20khz. The sounds did get progressively louder, so I dunno..

[IceBreakerG]

I'm 29 (will be 30 in 2 months) and I could hear up to 17khz. Weird thing though is that I couldn't really "hear" 18khz+, but when I played them all, my ears started to hurt a little bit. So I may not be able to "hear" it, but I can like "detect" it? Not sure what's going on. All I know is everything past 12khz hurts lol.

[Nagisan]

24 and I was able to hear up to 20kHz fine, for both 21 and 22 I can hear when the tone starts and stops, but I can't distinguish the tone itself from silence (it seems to make some kind of click when it starts and stops but I don't actually hear the tone itself, just the click....which is likely from my headphones starting and stopping when the sound starts and stops). Although, I am using Razer Carcharias, which have a frequency response up to 20kHz, so its possible my headphones are not even producing the sound (or at least not properly).

Nice to know that my hearing is as good as it is.....when I was younger and my school would do hearing tests (not sure why really, but it got us out of class so I went for it), the test giver always complimented me on my hearing. And I've never been a fan of music in general so I never really listen to any.....good to know that my hearing is as good as it has always been.

Back when I was in high school I could tell if the TV was on in the kitchen on mute from the next room just by the high pitch sound the TV made when it was turned on.

I still do that, nothing bugs me more than someone leaving a tv running with no sound and there's not enough other background noise to block out the high pitch of a tv....of course this doesn't happen often as LED/LCD/Plasma TVs don't do this, but whenever I'm around an older tv that was left on (and muted) I have to turn it off.

[Shiranui]

39 years old couldn't hear past 14kHz, panicked, popped ears and turned volume right up, heard up to 19kHz...

The click at the beginning spoils it a little as it makes it easier to imagine you are hearing something afterwards.

[Nagisan]

39 years old couldn't hear past 14kHz, panicked, popped ears and turned volume right up, heard up to 19kHz...

The click at the beginning spoils it a little as it makes it easier to imagine you are hearing something afterwards.

While true, I personally played each one multiple times, so I could be sure that I wasn't just thinking I was hearing something as each time I did it the tone sounded the exact same in pitch and loudness and was entirely discernible from background noise.....and after 20 I just couldn't hear crap, even with the click at the beginning.

[Seizure1990]

This entire test is kind of meaningless anyways. I'm sure a vast majority of us are getting bad results due to distortions from our speakers, and possibly even sound chips. For example, standard earbuds won't go above 20khz, but many people have claimed to hear above it... most likely, that's just the earbuds trying to reproduce the noise, and failing badly by making a lower pitches noise.

Furthermore, the fact that you are listening to a digital sample of a particular pitch messes it up already. The sound file is most definitely not "pure" for a number of reasons.

They have analogue resonator machines specifically for this kind of test, for when you want to get a legitimate result.