Can't hear the high notes

I know what you mean about tricking yourself a little bit most certainly.  I was debating if I was hearing it or just hearing the file start and stop.  Somebody thats crazy about the technicalities of it went on a massive spiel about it to me that I can't recall the specifics of because I probably didn't even understand them.

Sorry I didn't chime in sooner.  If you can't hear the high notes, crank the treble up to 11 and turn every thing else all the way down.

But seriously, crank the treble up to max everything else to min.  If you can't hear the high notes then, then forget about it.  Next, crank up the mid to the point where the high notes start to disappear and then go down a notch.  If you can turn it up all they way and still hear the high notes leave it at max.  Then crank the bass up and see if it wipes out the high notes at a certain point and then back down a notch.  And

You wouldn't happen to be one of those a-holes who drive around with the super loud thumping sub-woofer by any chance?  Because that would probably explain everything.


Edited by Slartibartfast - October 26 2011 at 19:16

^ No I hate that and people who do that.

Ive been adjusting my settings on the speakers, and it has helped a lot. But as I said before, this problem only arises when I listen to bands like The Mars Volta or Dream Theater, where it gets loud and bombastic, and unfortunately, hearing the high notes is essential in listening to those bands.

I also realize this seems to happen when high notes are being played, and the music underneath is loud guitars or something like that. Weird, because I used to listen to a lot of rock/metal when I was in high school and had no problems. But that may be the issue as well.

Have you tried putting samples of the passages that bother you together on a loop and tweaking away until you're happy with the sound?  I think it's either that or you'll have to quit listening to those bands and I'm guessing it's not an option.

Mr ProgFreak wrote: Alitare wrote: Yeah, with my headphones I heard up to 20hz (and almost could make out 21, but I think I was tricking myself a little). There could be some due validity in the previous statement. I thought my hearing sucked. I find that really hard to believe. I just took the test and could hear up to 12kHz, but not 14kHz, which is a little on the low side but normal considering my age (36 years) and the fact that I've been listening to music on headphones for all my life and did play in a Rock band for about 5 years. The thing is that when I played the higher frequency samples at really high volume through headphones, I could make out a tone besides the obvious start/stop noise - but it was at a lower pitch than the 12kHz tone. So my question to those of you who aren't kids anymore and stated that you could hear beyond 16kHz: Were the tones which you heard really of ascending pitch?  http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html It's really unusual for any adult person to be able to hear beyond 16kHz. And it's not a cause for alarm for an adult person to not be able to hear well beyond 14kHz even if you're a musician - it's more problematic if there are "holes" in your hearing in the lower frequency ranges.

Mr ProgFreak wrote: ^ And you heard tones in ascending pitch?

Mr ProgFreak wrote: Alitare wrote: Yeah, with my headphones I heard up to 20hz (and almost could make out 21, but I think I was tricking myself a little). There could be some due validity in the previous statement. I thought my hearing sucked. I find that really hard to believe. I just took the test and could hear up to 12kHz, but not 14kHz, which is a little on the low side but normal considering my age (36 years) and the fact that I've been listening to music on headphones for all my life and did play in a Rock band for about 5 years. The thing is that when I played the higher frequency samples at really high volume through headphones, I could make out a tone besides the obvious start/stop noise - but it was at a lower pitch than the 12kHz tone. So my question to those of you who aren't kids anymore and stated that you could hear beyond 16kHz: Were the tones which you heard really of ascending pitch?  http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html It's really unusual for any adult person to be able to hear beyond 16kHz. And it's not a cause for alarm for an adult person to not be able to hear well beyond 14kHz even if you're a musician - it's more problematic if there are "holes" in your hearing in the lower frequency ranges.

Sean Trane wrote: Mr ProgFreak wrote: Alitare wrote: Yeah, with my headphones I heard up to 20hz (and almost could make out 21, but I think I was tricking myself a little). There could be some due validity in the previous statement. I thought my hearing sucked. I find that really hard to believe. I just took the test and could hear up to 12kHz, but not 14kHz, which is a little on the low side but normal considering my age (36 years) and the fact that I've been listening to music on headphones for all my life and did play in a Rock band for about 5 years. The thing is that when I played the higher frequency samples at really high volume through headphones, I could make out a tone besides the obvious start/stop noise - but it was at a lower pitch than the 12kHz tone. So my question to those of you who aren't kids anymore and stated that you could hear beyond 16kHz: Were the tones which you heard really of ascending pitch?  http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html It's really unusual for any adult person to be able to hear beyond 16kHz. And it's not a cause for alarm for an adult person to not be able to hear well beyond 14kHz even if you're a musician - it's more problematic if there are "holes" in your hearing in the lower frequency ranges.   Given Alitare's 21 years, he's like a lot teens and young adults, his hearing capacities are generally much superior to mature adults... They can catch frequencies somewhat higher than we can....   In Europe, some firm invented some kind of emitter (I forget the specific name given to it) working around the 20KHz, to drive away unrully teens and young adults from specific places.... and it works like mad.... To the point that these sirens are now illegal, because they are making some kind of discrimination...   I don't recall the details of the full story about this emitter, but if a teen tells me he's able to hear up to 19 or 20K, I've got no reason to disbelieve him.

^Earbuds have to be worse for your ears.  They always sound so low budget with NO bass that the high and mid range just absolutely massacres your ears.  I'm talking about the Ipod headphones by the way.  Also, large headphones block out outside sound a lot more, so you don't need to have it as loud.  However, it depends on what you're doing with them, my large headphones can go to volumes that could destroy my ears in a very short period of time, whereas my Ipod headphones can't even drown out the annoying people around me.