[dgm]

As someone who appreciates high-fidelity audio, I am very concerned about hearing loss. I've heard that a healthy person can hear up to 20,000 hertz. I decided to check, and I could hear 13,000 hertz at a volume slightly above music listening comfort level. Should I be concerned about this?

Thanks,
dgm

 

[JahJahBinks]

How old are you? because ability to hear 20khz has to do with age.

 

[dgm]

no.

 

[Duggeh]

13? you should be able to hear past 20,000. Although what are you using to play the test tones? If you are using a speaker incapable of properly reproducing the frequencies then that will affect how you percieve the sound.

 

[dgm]

I was playing the tones as sine waves out of my AKG K601 headphones, which are capable of producing up to 39,500 hertz.

 

[trains are bad]

20,000hz is for very young and capable ears. Few can hear that high.

 

[Duggeh]

Might be because of the frequency dip on those headphones. What happens as you keep going up to past 20,000?

 

[marvin]

You may not have hearing loss at all. There is a gigantic dip at 13 kHz on the K601. Move beyond that and see if you can hear anything. And really, there are a lot of question marks about testing your hearing FR by at home testing. Many sources, many amps, and most headphones do not have a flat FR and will not give you an accurate picture of your hearing ability.

 

[dgm]

I suppose I shouldn't be too worried then. The program I used to generate the tones gives an error when I try and tell it to generate a tone higher than 14,000 hertz anyways, which I cannot hear at all. I'm assuming this is because of my headphones.

 

[CuriousVoiger]

go to an audilogist and ask to do an earing test - takes about 15min. here in London, UK, (to my surprise) are usually free. check it out in ur area. then you know for sure

 

[zyxwvutsr]

here's a site with some test sounds (pink noise though). You can also try using a software called audacity.