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Dude, why so angry? My ears are far from perfect. I was simply saying that it made sense to me, Mr. "Boohoo...I posted 25 minutes ago and nobody's answering me...boohoo". Go change your diapers and come back to join the conversation.![]()
Look, if you want to go out into the countryside and listen to caterpillars eating leaves, or witness grizzled shepherds inducing their dogs to go left or right by the application of a whistle which has NO DISCERNIBLE FUNCTION to the normally-hearing members of the human species, then that's your affair. I come from a country where one is NOT left twiddling one's thumbs for twenty-five whole minutes before someone has the common decency to acknowledge one's existence. I suppose it's too much to expect, to have a question acknowledged on a website by strangers, within a reasonable time period, I expect.
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I suppose it's too much to expect, to have a question acknowledged on a website by strangers, within a reasonable time period, I expect.
Sorry, I can't hear you. Your girlish whining is so high-pitched I can't make out a word you're saying.
Boohoo..........................![]()
About 14k on a good day.
Lest people freak (or freq) out about this too much, don't get thrown off by all those thousands in the hertz count. Frequency ranges, as a practical matter, work logarithmically.
The accepted maximum range of human hearing is a tad under 10 octaves (20.48k is 10 octaves above 20 Hz). If your hearing gives out at, say, 14.4k, you can "only" hear 9 octaves plus a minor 5th. In other words, someone with excellent hearing can hear a range of 120 semitones, and you're limited to 114.
There are pages and pages of discussion on these forums about the quality of equipment, frequency response of microphones and everything else, but how many people here have tested the most important piece of equipment that we all possess?
A few years ago, I tested the frequency range of my own hearing (as I have access to a signal generator), not under controlled conditions but just as a general curiosity, and was shocked to discover that my hearing pretty much disappears above 14.5kHz. I blame a life of rock and roll and a succession of amps that deafened the West, but mostly I blame drummers and a Siouxsie and the Banshees gig in 1980 which left me profoundly deaf for a day.
What's your hearing range, honestly?![]()
Last test was just shy of 22kHz in the right and just less (around 21.5) in the left.
This is why I can't use ribbon tweeters... And why VDO whine drives me absolutely batty to this day (although there are fewer and fewer recordings with it thanks to LCD/LED/Plasma technology).
I come from a country where one is NOT left twiddling one's thumbs for twenty-five whole minutes before someone has the common decency to acknowledge one's existence. I suppose it's too much to expect, to have a question acknowledged on a website by strangers, within a reasonable time period, I expect.