[nuphones]

My hearing is only good up to about 15 khz or so, and I can only hear that tone somewhat faintly. I would have to turn up the volume past halfway:

http://ia301125.us.archive.org/0/ite...z_audacity.wav

Here's another test:

Mosquito Tone Test, or How To Tell You're A Young'un // Plasticmind Journal

Does it ever concern you that you are "missing" some information, however small? How good is your hearing and does it concern you if you can't hear every last bit of info up to 20 khz?

PS: please do not crank up the volume on the test tones at all, start with a low volume.

Edit, please state your age in your post as well!

 

[Kirosia]

You should make this a poll. And change your name to Adam... something. Preferably a state.

See you on The 20KHZ Side of the Moon

 

[myinitialsaredac]

AHH it hurts.
Sounds like that should be illegal.

Dave

 

[Kirosia]

Holy crap, you actually made a poll.

 

[nuphones]

Please keep the volume down when trying the test tones!

 

[mypasswordis]

No, because I can.

 

[myinitialsaredac]

Quote:

Originally Posted by nuphones /img/forum/go_quote.gif Please keep the volume down when trying the test tones!

I was listening to some tunes and 18khz at that same volume (about 35%) hurts! It makes me cringe..

Dave

 

[illy2k]

woohoo I could hear 18kHz with ease, I am also 23! Last time I took a hearing test I could hear 20kHz. I also can hear lights and tv's when they are on w/o sound which is weird.

 

[Rednamalas1]

I started bleeding from my ears, also, my cat spontaneously became pregnant...and my cat's male!!!

 

[yukihiro]

had to turn it up to hear 18khz... and i'm 21 ):

edit: is that average or below average?

 

[Seamless Sounds]

Actually headphones does play a role in this. If the FR drops at the end of the spectrum, then you won't be able to hear it unless you crank the volume up. I'll vote when I find the right cans. A lot of the cans seem to suffer at the high frequencies.

 

[-=Germania=-]

I am 22 and hear up to 22kHz ( I have test tones ).

I listen to my music softly and take very good care of my ears.
Now that doesn't mean that I can hear things loudly, just the range.

 

[PiccoloNamek]

I am 25 years old, and my hearing cuts off at around 18.5kHz at normal listening levels. As long as it stays above 16kHz or so, I will be happy. I take every possible precaution to protect my ears, so I think I will be OK.

 

[lenzman]

The first link wouldn't work for me, and the online files on the mosquito site gave massive aliasing noise (lower-frequency buzzing). So I downloaded some test tone .wav files from Test Tones (20-20khz).

I played these files on an Acer 4220 laptop running Ubuntu 8.04.1. The sound output is heavily software-dependent - meaning that when played through Totem the tones are full of harmonic rubbish, but they're clean through Amarok and RealPlayer.

No surprise that the headphones make a big difference. Using my old Beyer DT311s I max out at 15kHz. With Grado SR80s I can easily hear 16kHz, but not 17kHz.

As I'm 47 and recovering from a bad cold I guess that's nothing to complain about

 

[EtherealApril]

I'm 18 and I can hear the 17kHz clearly but not the 18kHz. I'm sure my ears are better than most others my age, especially those who blast their ears with their ibuds on public transport, but they have suffered in noisy environments in the past.