Test Your Hearing Range
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Topic: Test Your Hearing Range
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Subject: Test Your Hearing Range
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 03:28
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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 ...
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 03:34
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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. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 04:21
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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 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 05:00
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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. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: progkidjoel
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 06:53
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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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Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 07:18
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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?  ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/users/Rivertree" rel="nofollow">  |
Posted By: The Truth
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 10:56
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NO I'll just fail, I've got a ton of fluid in my ears from a sinus infection anyway.  ------------- http://blindpoetrecords.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 11:19
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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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 13:54
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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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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 13:56
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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" rel="nofollow - http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 14:02
I didn't hear none of that, aw crap! I didn't have my speakers on.  I heard everything including a high pitched squeak that seemed to go on forever but I'm not sure what I should pick. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 14:19
This.
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progkidjoel wrote:Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 14:56
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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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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: November 05 2011 at 16:38
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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. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 01:48
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 ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 01:52
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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.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 07:22
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14Khz on the laptop's speakers, but up to 18Khz on headphones. ------------- 
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 08:13
It's quite above average.  ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 08:20
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: http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_aliasing.php" rel="nofollow - http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_aliasing.php This kind of aliasing I also heard on some YouTube hearing test clips which were poorly encoded. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 08:31
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).
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 08:36
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Incidentally: Judging from the posts and the actual votes I think some people voted for the last sound they heard - not for the last sound they couldn't hear anymore, like I described in the first post (and it's also said in the video). For example, from what Iván posted there should be a vote in the 17 KHz/41-50 option, but there isn't any. I wonder whether I should start the poll again and mention in each option "Can't hear X KHz"? ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 09:01
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I didn't actually vote in the poll, but to "fine tune" my initial post: cut-off point at 15Khz on laptop speakers, 18 or 19Khz on headphones. -------------
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 09:07
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^ Laptop speakers typically don't reproduce very low / very high frequencies well ... as demonstrated by your experience. Of course you should determine your cut off point using speakers which actually reproduce those high frequencies. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 10:00
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 13:42
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^ No need to apologize ... I should have realized how ambiguous the term "cut-off point" is. I just created a new and improved version of the poll - perhaps we can simply close this one, I also linked to it from the new one for reference. http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82546" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=82546 ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 13:45
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Fair do's. I'll shut this one down.
btw technically "cut off" is defined as 3dB reduction in volume - ie you can still hear it.  ------------- What? |