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Poll Question: Where's your cut-off point?
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    Posted: November 05 2011 at 03:28
In order to perform the test, listen to the following video and try to determine your cut-off point, which is the first sound that you can't hear anymore. Since the number of poll choices is limited, I couldn't include all the frequencies - so please choose the lowest one listed which you can't hear anymore.

And please make sure that you ...

  • Don't mistake the start/stop clicking sounds for the actual test sound
  • If sounds in the high frequency range appear to be lower in pitch than the previous one, you're most likely hearing a compression artefact rather than the test tone itself.
  • Perform the test on proper speakers (obviously)





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BTW: I'm 36, and I can't hear the sound at 14 KHz. I can hear 12KHz, and in another test video that I can't find anymore I could hear almost up to about 13.5 KHz ... but no matter how hard I try, I can't hear 14KHz. In the video it says that this is normal for my age, but all over the internet there are very different claims about what the normal hearing range should be for people in their thirties. If it's any indication though, the "mosquito ringtones" which are supposed to only be audible to teens are at about 17 KHz.
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I'm 48 and performing this test on my laptop without extra speakers... I really had trouble going over 12K....
with a good pair of headphones I was able to go up to 14K.... beyond that I was only able to hear the clicking sound before the frquencies
 
 
But if I check out my last yearly professional medical tests (performed every second year, so it was two years ago), I can hear up to 15K
 
 
 
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I'm 18 and I stopped hearing the tone at 15KHz. Although I'm not sure if I'm tricking myself at that stage.   
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17 years old, 17khz. After that I could still hear a tone but it was a lower not so I presumed it was the artifact you talked about.


Would youtube's compression change the results of this test at all?
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nearly 56 years old in the meanwhile ... ehhhhh ... 12 khz .. using AKG K 240 headphones ... and that's it.
Now have I passed the examination? Wink



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NO

I'll just fail, I've got a ton of fluid in my ears from a sinus infection anyway. LOL
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I was able to hear 17 KHZ, but after 15 it was a just barely thing. However, given how unpleasant most sounds above 10 KHZ were, I'm imagining that as my hearing range shrinks and I stop hearing those high pitched sounds, at least my appreciation of music won't be damaged?
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12 is the highest I could hear.

Edit: I actually take it back, I could jsut barely make out the 14. And it's not like I was actually hearing it in the traditional sense, I just felt an uncomfortable pain in my ears when it played.


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This is really neat, lets you map out your own hearing frequency response: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html
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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 05 2011 at 14:02
I didn't hear none of that, aw crap!  I didn't have my speakers on. Cry

I heard everything including a high pitched squeak that seemed to go on forever but I'm not sure what I should pick.


Edited by Slartibartfast - November 05 2011 at 14:09
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

17 years old, 17khz. After that I could still hear a tone but it was a lower not so I presumed it was the artifact you talked about.


Would youtube's compression change the results of this test at all?


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I'm 47 and can listen up to 16....I'm not sure if what i hear in 17 is the click of start or the sound.

Is this OK?

Iván

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I don't think I heard 20 KHz, but I definitely heard 18. I'm a drummer and only sometimes play with earplugs. Yessss.
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Would youtube's compression change the results of this test at all?

 
yeah, I was wondering about that as well and the level in dB of the different noises ...
some seemed  much louder thanothers (notably in the 1K-4K range)...
 
anyway, a normal (medical) hearing test will have more than one sound level (generally three or four) for each frequency
 
 
 
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I haven't had a real hearing test since I was a kid.  I've been mostly careful with volumes when listening to music so I'd like to think it's normal for a guy my age.   And I am so grateful I don't have persistent tinnitus, though I have experienced it on occasion though it was not music listening related.
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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14Khz on the laptop's speakers, but up to 18Khz on headphones.
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Originally posted by Ivan_Melgar_M Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

I'm 47 and can listen up to 16....I'm not sure if what i hear in 17 is the click of start or the sound.

Is this OK?

Iván

It's quite above average. Smile
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Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

17 years old, 17khz. After that I could still hear a tone but it was a lower not so I presumed it was the artifact you talked about.


Would youtube's compression change the results of this test at all?


Sure, compression can mess with high frequencies, but only at really low quality settings. When I created the poll I checked out several hearing test videos, and the one I picked did not show any problems related to audio encoding.

Here's a quick test to see whether maybe your computer sound hardware is introducing aliasing:


This kind of aliasing I also heard on some YouTube hearing test clips which were poorly encoded.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:

Originally posted by progkidjoel progkidjoel wrote:

Would youtube's compression change the results of this test at all?


anyway, a normal (medical) hearing test will have more than one sound level (generally three or four) for each frequency

Sure. In this poll I'm interested in whether people can hear those frequencies *at all*, whereas a proper medical hearing test uses calibrated audio gear and will determine how well you hear tones at certain frequencies with each ear (= audiogram).


Edited by Mr ProgFreak - November 06 2011 at 08:31
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