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 06 2011 at 13:41
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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 ...
BTW: This poll was created two days after the initial one because that one was ambiguous as to whether the cut-off point is the highest frequency you can (or can't) hear. Here's the old poll: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/edit_post_form.asp?PID=4337920" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/forum/edit_post_form.asp?PID=4337920 ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 13:52
 I can't hear 17KHz and I'm older than 51.------------- What? |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 14:21
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I'm still deaf from your first dad gummed hearing test!!! ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 14:29
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14 was the highest I heard. ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 14:32
You're putting it wrong. Again.  ------------- 
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Deathrabbit wrote:Posted By: Failcore
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 14:42
No I checked the 17 box. -------------
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 14:55
| Couldn't hear the 16 so the 17 box was the nearest. I'm 50. |
Posted By: TheMasterMofo
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 15:16
| I couldn't hear 17KHz. It felt like maybe I could barely hear it, but there was definitely a big difference between that and 16KHz so I was probably trying to fool myself into thinking I could still hear it. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 17:45
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re-voted 17KHz ------------- 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: CCVP
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 20:02
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I could hear the 18khz, so I guess I'm pretty good still!
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 21:27
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re-voted 17. Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: DisgruntledPorcupine
Date Posted: November 06 2011 at 23:13
| I'm 17. I heard from 30hz to 18khz on Sennheiser HD555 headphones. |
Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 07 2011 at 00:19
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I'm 23, I heard 19, but not 20. Is the second to last option supposed to say 20, not 12 by any chance? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: November 07 2011 at 00:24
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Can't Hear 17 KHz (Age 0-20) ------------- 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: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 08 2011 at 12:20
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Well, so far about 80% of the voters appear to be way above average, as far as literature on the subject is concerned. ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 02:43
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Can't hear 19 KHz (age 21 to 30) did hear 18 just ever so barely. So what does this mean? |
Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 07:36
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^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito" rel="nofollow - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito It means that you can hear frequencies which normally only teenagers can hear ... apparently you managed to protect your hearing more than most people.
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Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 08:10
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Can't Hear 19 KHz (Age 21-30). Couldn't hear 18 KHz either. ------------- Bigger on the inside. |
Posted By: JJLehto
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 11:56
Ironic given listening habits, but I am still quite young. I'll wait to see how bad I am at 40, I expect to be deaf  |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 17:08
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Can't hear at 15Khz. I'm 42. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: CCVP
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 20:05
If not even Mr. Townsend from The Who is still deaf, I don't think you will ever be, Brian. Now, stop playing internet tough guy, we all know you only listen to radio Disney at a reasonable volume. -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 20:09
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I'm 46 and I think I can hear all of those it's just at the higher frequencies I get sort of a crackle effect (a speaker artifact?). I had an episode of tinnitus not too long ago and it sounded like it was raining softly outside when it wasn't. The crackle was similar to that. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 09 2011 at 22:39
Whoa, that's very nice. Now in addition to perfect sight I know I have perfect hearing too. And I never even put extra effort into preserving them (except sunglasses  ).------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 06:51
I think the test would be more useful if the test frequencies had content rather than being just tones. Anyway, I'm going to stay home today and clean my guns.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Moogtron III
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 06:57
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Can't hear at 14 and I'm 46. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 12:00
| My cutoff was around 15 kHz. I'm 34. |
Posted By: TheMasterMofo
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 17:31
Interesting... One of my students had the phone ring tone version of this thing last year and was irritating other students with it. I could never hear it, so it didn't bother me. |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: November 10 2011 at 17:50
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14KHz was the first I couldn't hear. I'm 53, and spend years playing in, and working with very loud bands. Plus, and ear infection as a child didn't help. ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 14 2011 at 04:25
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15 and I am deaf - too much loud metal ------------- 
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 14 2011 at 10:09
What you describe as "content" would involve a broad spectrum of frequencies ... as soon as you use something other than a sine wave you get a whole bunch of overtones. Which in this case would almost invariably be above the threshold of hearing as well as recording digitally (22KHz). EDIT: In other words: In order to sound like more than just tones, the higher frequency sounds would have to contain lower frequencies, too, which in turn would make it impossible for you to say for sure whether you can hear the higher frequencies.
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Posted By: Mr ProgFreak
Date Posted: November 14 2011 at 10:47
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Here's an interesting page showing various frequencies and their effects - haven't listened to the samples yet though, since I'm posting this from work: http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/6-different-frequencies-and-how-to-spot-them/" rel="nofollow - http://audio.tutsplus.com/tutorials/mixing-mastering/6-different-frequencies-and-how-to-spot-them/ ------------- https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike" rel="nofollow - https://tagyourmusic.org/users/Mike |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 14 2011 at 12:53
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"EQ by numbers" is a little too formulaic for me - unless you're recording the same instruments in the same setup time after time then the specific EQ settings/requirements rarely be the same twice - but the general ideas are ones I also use when needed. ------------- What? |
Posted By: refugee
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 11:45
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Didn’t take the test, but here’s my herring’s range: In the eastern North Atlantic, herring’s range extends from the Baltic Sea to the Northern Bay of Biscay, and around Iceland.
------------- He say nothing is quite what it seems; I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: November 15 2011 at 11:51
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I said, "it's ten to six!" ------------- What? |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 26 2011 at 19:52
All I can hear is a guy in a German accent saying, "Hans, the sausages!" over and over again.  ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Sheavy
Date Posted: December 19 2011 at 00:22
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Couldn't hear 19kHz. I'm 18.
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