How's your hearing?

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I could hear everything up to 17kHz. After that, I could only "feel" the frequencies after that. I had to turn the volume WAY down after 2kHz because it was hurting my ears.
 
Very interesting. Thanks for posting this.

On the bottom end, I couldn't hear 20hz, but I could hear 30hz and up.

On the top end I could hear 15khz fairly well, but not much at 16khz, so I guess my drop off is about 15.5khz.
 
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50hz - 16khz

I'm 25 - another important piece of information for this test!! :D

I could really hear the difference in volume with a couple of the higher frequencies between my ears, better watch my panning!!
 
Trying this in the studio with Genelecs I could sense 20hz but not sure if I could call it hearing. I could hear 30hz up to 17khz. Got nothing after that. It's actually better than I thought considering I'm 40 and played in rock bands for the past 20 years.

Cheers
Peter
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" your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying...."

(with apologies to Floyd !:D )

Cheers
Joe
 
Hmm... I could only hear the 60Hz to 15 KHz range.
 
If you can't hear the low stuff, it may be your speakers/monitors/headphones and not you. I could "hear" the 20hz with headphones, but it was more rumble than sound. I could hear 17k, and was vaguely aware that something was going on for 18 and 19, but by 20, I may as well have been sitting in silence.

Gratifying :) I thought I was much worse off than that after standing next to the crash cymbal for as long as I did.
 
antichef said:
If you can't hear the low stuff, it may be your speakers/monitors/headphones and not you. I could "hear" the 20hz with headphones, but it was more rumble than sound. I could hear 17k, and was vaguely aware that something was going on for 18 and 19, but by 20, I may as well have been sitting in silence.

Gratifying :) I thought I was much worse off than that after standing next to the crash cymbal for as long as I did.
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Download the actual file. I think the Freesound's preview compresses the files for streaming purposes. I couldn't hear above 16kHz either at first, but when I downloaded the file and brought it into my system to play through my Digi hardware I could hear it just fine. Same with playing through my stock sound card in Windows Media player...I could hear above 16kHz easily.

What's interesting is to listen to the differences between sound cards. Look at the pic below for the 17kHz tone. The display on the left is the original MP3 file. The second display is of the MP3 being played out my stock sound card analog and recorded back into Pro Tools and the third is the MP3 being played out my Digi card and then recorded back into Pro Tools. Imagine what it's doing to the music people mix on a stock card!
https://img370.imageshack.us/img370/7376/12852046iv0.jpg

You also can see in the waveforms the poor frequency response of the card
 
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You also can see in the waveforms the poor frequency response of the card
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wow! - that middle picture is awful -- but I bet I could hear it :D -- I did my experiment on my work laptop with the built in audio (during lunch, of course :) ) -- I'll try again on my better hardware at home, and may find out that my hearing isn't as good as I thought it was
 
29 years old. Been in bands with drummers since 21.

Felt 20 Hz.

Heard 30 Hz - 16 KHz.

17K Hz and up gave me a headache, but no distinguishable note.

Senn HD280 on a MacBook
 
Mate, my tinnitus is so bad I couldn't tell it was raining this morning.
I felt something at 20 then was fine until 11Khz passed by without a nod, 12Khz too then I THOUGHT I heard 13 but that's the end of that.
Interestingly I used a reasonable wave recorder to record it as I went so I could look at the results (without joining) & NOTHING except the "on" click & voice recorded after 18khz.
 
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rayc said:
Interestingly I used a reasonable wave recorder to record it as I went so I could look at the results (without joining) & NOTHING except the "on" click & voice recorded after 18khz.
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yeah, i figured that's the freq response of the Flash player
 
Very cool test for not only checking your hearing range but the frequency response of your different monitoring systems.
 
Phuturistic said:
Very cool test for not only checking your hearing range but the frequency response of your different monitoring systems.
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That's exactly what I plan on doing with it.. Heard 20-17k. At 20Hz I couldnt really discern the note, but def. heard it. 17k was really faint.. I wasnt sure I was hearing it until the tone stopped. 18k+ was total silence for me.
 
I wanna get my dog in here and turn up the 22Khz and see what happens
 
It ended up I was already a member there & had no trouble (except remembering my pword) downloading it. I'll try again when I get the chance - though I think tinnitus will mask a fair bit of the high end.
 
30-16 in my left
30-17 in my right
(i already knew there was a difference in my ears, so no surprise there.

31 yrs old, not too bad i guess....
 
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