Hi all.
Try giving this ago. There are a bunch of mp3 files HERE . Have a listen to them and post the number of the last one you can hear.

Last one I can hear is 19Khz.

Regards
James

My hearing damage occurred while in the employ of the U.S. Navy as a first loader on a 3-inch, 50mm anti-aircraft dual mount gun. At that time the navy didn't have hearing protectors, and for the most part, didn't think there was a problem. Consequently, everything on that page is now out of my hearing range. Getting old compounded the problem.

Thanks for the post,

Gary

with headphone i hear from 8 to 22khz

I am getting old...

A few years ago i did a similiar test and could hear 19Khz

Now i can only hear 17Khz

17Khz is seriously good though. Well above average.

James

James good try but these guys on SZ could tell you anything, for intance AJ would tell you, well you work it out, I can hear 50Khz, get up at 4 every day, go for a 10 mile run, only one leg, shall I stop, or go deaf!

Regards

I think you know what I mean!

lol... it's not a contest.
I'm sure people don't feel they have to lie about what they can and can't hear.

There's not a music note in the world that would approach even the lowest sound on that website.

Regards
James

using my headphone I also hear from 8 to 22khz

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we most ask diki to do this test i think

Or Nick

Could not hear any of the samples ...

I wear ITE hearing aids every waking moment. On James test, using a headset, I hear nothing with or without my aids.

Here is another test which provided very different results: http://freehearingtest.ca/index_flash.html
Without my aids I could hear only the 500Hz tone.
With my aids I could hear all but the 8000Hz.

While working on gigs, I HAVE to wear my hearing aids. Without them I do not hear any highs. I know others on the forum here who take their out while working. My audiologist says hearing impairments are very individualized. One solution does not fit all. It took several months tweaking at the audiologit's before I felt I was getting maximum benefit from my aids.

Eddie

lol.. You insolent little kid..

i have done the test with headphone and low volume i hear all good

Look after it mate, that's perfect hearing.
You have the hearing of a new born baby

Regards
James

Joking apart james I can hear them all without earphones, this is why.
http://www.phonak.com/nz/b2c/en/products/hearing_instruments/audeo_yes/overview.html

Tony

lol.... you eat lots of sushi ?

This was interesting. Using the link Eddie posted, I was able to hear sounds up to 4000-hz using headphones. Of course, I had to turn up the volume a bit, but the sound was very clear and audible.

Thanks for the link,

Gary

On the first test with my speakers at a fairly low volume, I could hear all up to the 20kHz. My fan on our cpu is a little noisy and that didn't help.

Boosting the speaker volume allowed me to hear all of them.

The second test seemed less difficult than the first one, I easily heard all of them...

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Bill in Dayton

Very interesting test. My wife tells me my hearing is headed for trouble especially since older family members use hearing aids, it's in the genes. I only heard the 8 KHz tone clearly and just a little bit of the 10Khz sound.

Now the surprise was my wife who hears the faint beeps of a Timex watch with an alarm that I wear. She can be in bed in the morning when my watch alarm is set for 5:10 AM. Since most mornings I awake before the alarm, I'm usually in the kitchen getting my lunch for later in the day made and having coffee. She'll yell out of the bedroom some 30 feet away saying "TURN OFF YOUR ALARM" I don't hear it with other background noise. She took the test today and to my surprise she could only hear up to 14 khz and that was a bit faint. Meanwhile my 2 dogs about jumped thru the window when they heard the highest pitches!!

And forget that Can you hear like a teenager test? I know there was no sound coming from that test. LOL

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Gary,

Think you got your hz and Khz mixed up and I think some people are hearing Tinitus and white noise. What did you say! When you are doing a hearing test you should let some run the test and you close your eyes then you cannot see them pressing the buttons expexting a sound. You should hold up your hand each time you hear a sound.

Regards

Deafhead

Seriously, be careful with that one. I didn't link to it because it's VERY loud.

It's sounds to me like a 17Khz sound, but they have done something to it. Possible normalized it because it's so freaking loud and not nice at all on the ears.

So if your going to listen, turn down your speakers first and then turn them up until your comfortable listing to it.

Regards
James

Weird,

using headphones, I first clicked on the 8Khz button and then jumped to 12 and then to 22K when I heard nothing.

I went down to 21, I heard a faint something, and then when I got them all in a row I realised that I couldn't easily hear above 16, but I could faintly hear the 21 Khz one. Maybe I need an equaliser.

My father hears constantly what he describes as "a stream of water running" and his mother also was very hard of hearing in her last years. So I am probably also going to be accepted in the "Say that again, son?" hall of fame soon.

Tony,

You're right--I left the K off the frequency. I'm so old I remember when it was called CPS (cycles per second) and KC (kilocycles).

Cheers,

Gary

James,

I think I heard a noise in my head, sure it soundled like SSSSSSSSSSSSS4 out thisssssssssssssss week, was that Tinitus or White Noise or AJ wisssssssssssspering in my ear!

Our just wisssssssssssssssshful think?

Or simply a 50 cycle Hum!

Frans and Irishacts -

You two are seriously pathetic!

According to you I only have cheap computer speakers so why would you want me to take the test?

hoping that I fail too prove a point?

have fun!


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We have fun

I could hear 12 but not any of the higher ones.
DonM

I did the test again with lower volume and now the result is 19 kHz

I could only hear up to 8000. For 25 years I sat next to the drummer. Oh well, I'm thankful for what I have left.

Tom

Huh..!!!!

Trust me, your nowhere near that important that I'd orchestrate such a thread just to trick you into testing your speakers.

Man, your one seriously paranoid dude.

The thread is what it is, just harmless fun for everyone, and not just you.

James

I got as far as 19...I didn't think I'd get that far, but, I guess the years of wearing ear protection paid off.

Good bit of fun, and quite revealing, James.

Ian

Weird...19Khz sounds louder than 20kHz and 21kHz louder than 20kHz. 22kHz sounds like a bumble bee. So -yes- I hear them all.

Just don't tell my wife or I no longer have an excuse that I never hear her telling me to take out the trash...


which I do every day.

Taike

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Bo pen nyang.

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Am I missing something or isn't this all predicated on how high the volume is on your speakers ?!? ... I could hear them all and I've got a punctured eardrum on the right side ... born with it, but it wasn't enough to keep me out of the Army ... and in the Tank Corps no less ... that 90MM gun sounded REAL loud inside that thing!!!
t.

Hey Chaps,

It's like James says a bit of fun, it's not a controlled experiment, you won't win a prize and after all that you still won't be able to tell which is best PA2x or Audya. They say that women can hear higher frequencies than men, so ask your Doris or Patsy which is best, PA2X or Audya, she�ll probably say �it depends whose playing it�.
And she will be right yet again!


Cheers


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Isn't that the correct answer, though?

Taike

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Bo pen nyang.

That sounds a little odd. Could be that your speakers are under pressure there.

The tone produced is a super clean Sine Wave, so there's no buzzing in it. If you hear buzzing it could be just distortion from the speakers trying to produce the sound.

Don't worry about it, when you get upwards of 15Khz your into some seriously high frequencies. To do the test right in the first place you would need to use headphones that are rated higher than the 22Khz.

Regards
James

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My Hearing Aid is down in her office making us a living
I have excellent selective hearing.
My neighbors hear really good. They call me up when I am playing and ask me to play a song for them
Bebop

Without headphones, I'll admit to not hearing much past 16kHz, with my headphones, not much past 17kHz. Years of live music in loud bands takes it's toll! Not to mention, at 54, it's about average, from what my audiologist tells me. But a FAR more important test is how much attenuation you get in the 2-6kHz range, where speech and much music's fundamentals exist. That's a far more important test, but hard to check without rigorous checking of your test gear.

To be honest, unless you set AND LEAVE your levels for this test at the same level, it's really a bullsh*t test. If you crank those high frequencies up enough, to be honest, with an MP3, you aren't really hearing the test tone but artifacts from the encoding process. Not to mention aliasing from your soundcard, etc.. Self administered tests like this don't really show much, I'm afraid. Want to REALLY know where your hearing is? Go see an audiologist (not a rep for a hearing aid company!)...

Of course, I'm sure that many of you realize that there isn't a single musical sound in those ranges, just the upper limit of some of the overtone harmonics. You might miss a hair of detail, but it's not really a true test of whether your hearing in general is any good. Most of what you listen to is a good two to three octaves below those test tones.

But, no doubt those who claim to hear up into the 20kHz+ range are feeling good about themselves...

But here's a more important question...

It's not whether you HEAR like a teenager - it's whether you PLAY like a teenager! Or post here like one... That test has already been failed by some here, without them even being aware of it

PS...

Open these files in an audio editor... laugh your socks off! Not even CLOSE to a sine wave. Plus, original files are 192kbps MP3's at 44kHz sample rate. Why couldn't the poster just post .Wav's at 16bit? Might have been a bit more sine-like (24bit @ 48k would have been better, too).

Bottom line is, once you are in the digital realm, pure sine waves at these kinds of high frequencies are impossible to produce. You are getting too close to the Nyquist limits of the technology, even at CD quality. This is why you'll see real analog equipment in reputable audiologists' labs. Only they are capable of generating tones without spurious artifacts.

Google test tone wav to get to some sites that offer free CD quality test tones, if you like. But open up any past 10kHz or so in a decent audio editor (one that shows the ACTUAL sample points) and you'll see why those audiophiles still like their analog playback systems!

Last post...

There's only one thing I REALLY would like to be able to do like a teenager...

What files are you looking at Diki ?.

Diki,

I did say earlier that it was a laugh and James knows it's not a laboratory test under controlled conditions, did you just say the same but in many words. You would not be fitted with a pair hearing aids on the basis of the test, however it is high likely as I said that some of you have tinnitus which has its own frequency which will interfere with any test, I am typing now without my hearing aids and my tinnitus is screaming at some high frequency I cannot measure, when I put my hearing aids in the tinnitus disappears. I really find it hard to believe that anyone who has been around load noises for years as a number of people in SZ you have not got some form of tinnitus; perhaps you have got use to it. back, I play KB like at teenager, but what you where alluring to above my frequency is perhaps a bit too fast.
Cheers


PS I would never believe you are only 54 Diki, I had a big paper round when I was a boy, you are closer to a teenager that I am.


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Had a Hearing Test yesterday in the town's new community health centre.
Found to have "moderate to severe" hearing loss.
Going to get new 'digital' hearing aid in six weeks time.
All on the National Health service and free.
Can't wait to see if it damps down this damned tinnitus.
Oh well, at 77 maybe I shouldn't be too surprised.....had tinnitus for 20 of those years...I read the other day about someone who got rid of his tinnitus after a brain op and woke thinking he was deaf and then was scared to death at all the noise he could hear!
I could put up with that..

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Eddie from Rotherham
http://www.music2myears.plus.com

Eddie,

You will perhaps lose your tinnitus with the new hearing aids, I did, it comes back when you take them out, the first time I walked up the stairs with the new hearing aid I heard this clicking noise, it was the bones in my ankles, when you run the wash basin taps it hurts like hell at first, noises you haven�t heard for 40 years. And to cap it all you will now know what your Doris as to put up with when you play the KB. You may decide to sell it! Eddie you will be surprised, I can guarantee it!

Tony

Thanks for your support Tony.
I will let you know what experience I have in due course.
Hopefully it's going to be as good as it sounds (no pun intended!)


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http://www.music2myears.plus.com