DSGant
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Well, you can see an audiologist, or you may be able to do it on your computer. Certainly, your system can put out frequencies up to at least 20kHz, but probably higher, so if that's your ceiling, you're good. Just use Audacity's tone generator to make a sine wave. Be careful though, because sine waves have more aptitude to cause hearing loss than any other tone. Make a long one, around a minute, and starting from silence, slowly increase the volume until you can hear it.
If you want to check higher frequencies, there may be a hardware limit on you. I'm sure most of your cans will produce frequencies above 20kHz, but highly attenuated, so you'll need to crank the volume up past what you'd normally listen to (again, be careful). However, your computer might not be up to it. I know my iMac's internal sound can, but my Total Bithead gives up around 21kHz (still makes music sound better than the internal sound, though).
Originally Posted by Palpatine /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm curious... will have to get mine checked. Where can this be done? |
Well, you can see an audiologist, or you may be able to do it on your computer. Certainly, your system can put out frequencies up to at least 20kHz, but probably higher, so if that's your ceiling, you're good. Just use Audacity's tone generator to make a sine wave. Be careful though, because sine waves have more aptitude to cause hearing loss than any other tone. Make a long one, around a minute, and starting from silence, slowly increase the volume until you can hear it.
If you want to check higher frequencies, there may be a hardware limit on you. I'm sure most of your cans will produce frequencies above 20kHz, but highly attenuated, so you'll need to crank the volume up past what you'd normally listen to (again, be careful). However, your computer might not be up to it. I know my iMac's internal sound can, but my Total Bithead gives up around 21kHz (still makes music sound better than the internal sound, though).