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Hearing test - how damaged are your ears?

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I can hear 22 but it sounds lower than 16k, so it might be that my headphones are a bit weird when it comes to playing high pitched sounds.
 
Originally posted by: randay
i can hear 21 better than 20 and 22...
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So you say your EARS have selective hearing? Sounds like you should tell your Sig. Other than it's not your fault you selectively listen.....
 
I could hear all the way up to 22khz. My right ear perceives sound louder than my left, and I have fairly bad tinnitus (due to jaw-joint problems). It amazes me I was able to differentiate between the tone and my tinnitus at such high frequencies. I guess wearing in ear monitors when listening to music and public and earplugs at concerts has done me well.
 
i got to 21 and I couldn't hear 22. I'm 20 yrs old, wear headphones regularly to the gym and on trips, volume not too loud either,
 
I don't think this test has any kind of accuracy. I can hear them all without adjusting the volume. Using crap speakers. And I all well past 25.

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I can 'just about' hear 14KHz I'm 25 and I'm using crappy iPhone headphones but I don't think I would fair better with better headphones. I have abused my hearing listening to MD's at loud volumes since I was 13.

I crank up my speakers pretty loud at home now that I have my own place 😀

Koing
 
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Originally posted by: dakels
Originally posted by: Fritzo
Wow, i can't hear anything, but everyone else was going "WTF IS THAT NOISE???"

My hearing was blown out a while ago from loud amps 🙁
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lol What a great way to piss people off.




I can hear 12k clearly but not 14k+
I am using a built in comp speaker which is crap.
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Haha...I was turning up the volume more and more, and people started coming out of their office thinking a piece of equipment was going haywire 😀 I was like "What? I don't hear anything!"
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That's awesome. Just tell them its the auditory "canine gene test" and they passed.

I can't believe I can't hear over 12k though. I played drums and used to club DJ but I always wore ear protection. I need a hearing ear dog now.
 
New test results.

Copied sounds to mp3 player and used a fair set of headphones. Adjusted volume till music was comfortable.

Can't hear anything above 12.

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No idea, don't want to mess up speakers when I forget that it's outputting properly, I'm just deaf.

Anyways, I should be pretty bad. Went to 2 concerts, no ear plugs, stood near the front. One ear felt muffled for months. Nowadays, I wear safety ear plugs at the movie theatre; expensive ones that let through sound evenly are stiff and uncomfortable.
 
Originally posted by: randay
i can hear 21 better than 20 and 22...
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I noticed the same thing; I used ear canal headphones and could hear up to 19kHz, no 20kHz, yes at 21kHz, no at 22kHz. Hard for me to believe I could hear that high-I'm 55.

 
Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
My laptop sound card fails, can't get higher than 16kHz on it but I know I've heard higher tones.

Gotta try it on my desktop with my Audigy 2 ZS later.
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Face it, you deaf as a haddock!!
 
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