What is your hearing range?? - Page 2

20.5 to 17,000. I guess is more than enough.

Using analog or wideband source and amp is crucial here. From a personal computer it's quite probable you hear aliasing artefact instead of something near or above 20kHz. I connected Sennheiser HD438 and Sony MDR-EX700LP to the Wayne-Kerr 3260B Magnetic Analyzer at various amplitudes and what I realized was:

- the Sony's don't play sounds below 40Hz, so this makes no sense

- the Sennheiser's don't play above 17kHz so this makes no sense, either

Based on both, I hear up to 18600kHz, 18700kHz is silence for my ears at any volume, 100Hz less isn't silence. I hear the 20Hz tone from the Sennheiser but the meter doesn't go lower. It's good to be sure that you test your hearing instead of your equipment.

I can hear pretty much all of 20-20k. It seems to me that only like 30-16k is important tho.

late EDIT: I find it impossible to believe people that claim they can hear past 20k and that such freqs. are actually relevant.

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Originally Posted by joomongj 

I can't hear past 18kHz from one of the abundant tests available on the web. If I go see an audiologist it might be different but that's good enough for me. Have yet to hear music w/ such high freq. myself in my collection.

Strikes me as funny.  Of course you don't hear those frequencies in your music, if those frequencies are beyond your hearing range

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22Hz-18kHz. Decidedly average. I don't really think I'm missing out on much...

I tested this out using my home setup. Volume on Valhalla at 9:00, which is my regular listening level. I would say my range is 16 to under 20kHz.

I could definitely hear (or rather, feel) 16 Hz, but I had a really hard time with 20KHz (my computer fan was really loud as well). The next test file I had was 16KHz, which I could definitely hear, but I had nothing in between 16 kHz and 20kHz.

20Hz to 19kHz with a Beyer DT880 and at higher volumes toward the extremes (to combat F-M). Kinda annoying I couldn't reach the theoretical 20kHz (at age 22), but I can't say I feel like I'm missing anything, nor do I believe I've done any damage as I almost never listen to music at high volume.

25ft at 70db

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