[hellomai]

http://www.klippel-listeningtest.de/lt/default.html

this website give you a test of how good is your headphone / ears are. i can't go pass -21dB with my PC's on board sound card. How about you?

 

[Duggeh]

-18db with an Nforce2 audio and Stax 2020.

The test is fundamentally flawed but a fun enough few minutes.

 

[Wildsurfer]

-21dB with SBlive 24bits and DT770s...

 

[TheVinylRipper]

-36 dB with my TB Santa Cruz playing though Altec Multimedia w/Dolby Surround and a decent sub.

I think the Dolby Surround helped, it makes it ridiculously easy to hear clicks and pops on vinyl.

Nice test, thanks that was very interesting.

I *does* kind of support my assertion that many "golden eared" audiophiles are not as golden as they like to think though....

 

[TheVinylRipper]

Oh, BTW, it was much easier to hear the distortion on the vocals than the instruments..

 

[Duggeh]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheVinylRipper /img/forum/go_quote.gif I *does* kind of support my assertion that many "golden eared" audiophiles are not as golden as they like to think though....

How does this do any such thing?

 

[Aevum]

-15db on a 1 year old unmodded X-FI xtreme music and Mylarone X3

i feel shame....

 

[TheVinylRipper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Duggeh /img/forum/go_quote.gif How does this do any such thing?

Are you serious?

You can only hear distortion down to -18 dB and it doesn't show you that distortion is hard to hear?

On edit:

I am, as hams say, used to "climbing in" to the speakers or phones to hear nuances of the sound. I have a lot of experience listening for various non linearities in sound.

 

[guttorm]

-33dB with creative sb and er6. i got down to the one before the bottom then missed 3 in a row, then got the rest right unless not the last one tested(it didn't show). i'm gonna try again i think i have a better idea of how to listen now

 

[guttorm]

i got a 24 then a 27 on repeat tries. i hear distortion on both recordings but obviously less on one (to a point anyway). looking at the headphone distortion graph for the er6 that's maybe not the recording's fault though. I was a little surprised when i checked that out yesterday for the first time

 

[SysteX]

-33 db also. Using system in sig. I'm getting tired of Tracy Chapman now.

 

[goldenratiophi]

-33 with SR60s.

 

[TheVinylRipper]

Quote:

Originally Posted by SysteX /img/forum/go_quote.gif -33 db also. Using system in sig. I'm getting tired of Tracy Chapman now.

LOL, you have no idea how many times I listen to the same musical phrase trying to get the last bit of distortion out of it..

I have stuff that I must have listened to fifty or sixty times in the space of a few hours..

Luckily, I have a linear tracking turntable and a microline stylus so I don't have to worry about anti skating and inner groove distortion so much.

 

[guttorm]

the octave one is much easier. i got -45dB no problem

 

[b0dhi]

I agree with Duggeh, the test is very flawed. It was so hard to keep my eyes closed while clicking left and right so I lost my concentration. There really should be two keys on the keyboard that select A and B instead. Also, the quality of the audio itself is far too low.

The other thing that was very annoying was the loud click when each samples was played. Its sort of like change blindness for audio.

Might have a 2nd try if they fix those problems.

EDIT: removed results.