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post #1 of 26
5/3/07 at 8:42pm
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http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html

Hope this hasnt been posted before.

What kind of curve do you guys have? mine seems pretty bad at high frequencies, cant even hear the last tone.
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post #2 of 26
5/3/07 at 9:30pm
Interesting, but I would imagine this depends a lot on the quality of the headphones you use. Hmm, now I have a way to test headphone response.

I got the following readings with various cans on the last 2 frequencies:

DT880s: 12KHz is -24db and 16KHz is -6db
HD650s: 12KHz is -12db and 16KHz is -6db
K701s: 12KHz is -18db and 16KHz is -6db

What does that mean? It means my hearing sucks above 8KHz.
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post #3 of 26
5/4/07 at 12:00am
I was surprised by how much of the higher freq. I could hear. I never tried to test my hearing before. Thanks for the link.
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post #4 of 26
5/4/07 at 12:11am
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Originally Posted by sofronitsky View Post
I was surprised by how much of the higher freq. I could hear. I never tried to test my hearing before. Thanks for the link.
How high were you able to clearly hear?
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post #5 of 26
5/4/07 at 12:19am
30 Hz @ -30 dB
16 kHz @ -33 dB

This was using my Marshmellows with my girlfriend doing laundry. I'll try again with my MS-1s tommorow night....

The trick is knowing the difference between a tone and my PC's hiss


What's a good score?

edit : my laundry doin' girlfriend got
30 Hz @ -36 dB
16 kHz @ -39 dB

!
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post #6 of 26
5/4/07 at 12:27am
at 16khz: my left ear hears down to -57db
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post #7 of 26
5/4/07 at 5:40am
At 16kz, I can hear easily to -96... what the hell?
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post #8 of 26
5/4/07 at 6:01am
30hz: -36db
16khz: -66db

Guess my hearing is a little better than i thought. This is with the tv on.
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post #9 of 26
5/4/07 at 6:19am
30hz: -48dB
12khz: -48dB
16khz: -12dB

Elsewhere I do well up to between 14 and 15 kHz then it goes straight up to the -12dB at 16kHz. It indicates to me that above 15 kHz I have a fair amount of hearing loss. But for someone 56 years old that may not be that bad. I used the instruction rigidly. These are my sound levels where those tones are just beginning to be heard at each frequency. The last time and my best time that I did this was when I used my ATH-ANC7 noise cancellation headphones. This curve compared with previous tests was much smoother across the audio range much like the typical sound profiles you see on the threshold of audibility curves. Only for the audibility curves the scale is inversed on the vertical side.

Be careful that you don't increase the levels to high just to get a reading.
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post #10 of 26
5/4/07 at 7:29am
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your remember to compare the +/- Dba to the 1khz baseline right tw0kings?
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post #11 of 26
5/4/07 at 11:12pm
i'm really not sure how to use this, but it's fun making little songs out of the noises.
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post #12 of 26
5/5/07 at 5:47am
Ergh... my HD650 seems to clip at the lowest frequency...
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post #13 of 26
5/5/07 at 9:45am
interesting

with the HD650 my threshold at 30hz -40 .....and 16khz -54 (what veil!!!???)

with the MDR 7506 30hz -42 .... and 16khz -46

my test environment was a bit traffic noisy and 7506 are closed.


so on this test through my laptop, the hd650 has more top end and maybe less bottom end than the sony! wtph!

so, a really inefficient pair of cans would be telling us we are deaf on this threshold test, straight out of my laptop?
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post #14 of 26
5/5/07 at 2:36pm
At what volume are you supposed to do this test at, anyway? Won't it be different for everyone, making the dB levels totally useless?
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post #15 of 26
5/5/07 at 2:52pm
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Originally Posted by Schalldämpfer View Post
At what volume are you supposed to do this test at, anyway? Won't it be different for everyone, making the dB levels totally useless?
My take on this is to use whatever normal volume you want at the initial frequency of 1 kHz. Don't go higher than your normal volume. You will defeat the purpose of the test.
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