cuts out at 16 :(
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:34 (thirteen years ago) link
12
― mookieproof, Sunday, 19 September 2010 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
If you can hear the little "ptt" at the beginning of the tone but not really the tone does that count?
― Ground Zero Mostel (Hurting 2), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
voted 15, but after adjusting the volume I can hear 17
― my sex drew back into itself tight and dry (abanana), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
no, what you are hearing is a an impulse sound and not the frequency itself.
― 4 my muthafuckin mods (crüt), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
if i put my ears 1 cm from the speaker - does that count?
how high does the volume of the speakers should be?
― Zeno, Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Can juuuuuust hear 16k on my computer speakers. Have been playing in bands for 21 years without using earplugs, so.
― Shock and Awe High School (Phil D.), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
maximum volume+attach me ears to the speakers - i can hear them all
― Zeno, Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
16k, and I'm so young :(
― dayo, Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
tried this on my regular speakers and got to 18. computer speakers not optimal.
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
high volume + headphones = all of 'em
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Sunday, 19 September 2010 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
If I crank my speakers up loud, I can just hear 14 kHz.
― Brad C., Monday, 20 September 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
16
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Monday, 20 September 2010 00:52 (thirteen years ago) link
19
― iatee, Monday, 20 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
but w/ shitty laptop speakers like everyone else
12 kHz. Tinnitus drowns out anything higher than that. :(
I'll dispute that. I have mad crazy tinnitus, and 17k was my upper limit for hearing something. Tinnitus, as I understand it, is not actually hearing loss, it's more like phantom hearing. It seems to be more neurological than physiological. But we don't really know for sure.
There is, though, a MAJOR flaw in this test, in that it depends on your speakers or earphones.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel depressed now - how bad will my hearing be at 30? 40?
need to stop playing loud music on headphones
― dayo, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:04 (thirteen years ago) link
standing next to speakers at punk shows finally took its toll I guess
how bad will my hearing be at 30? 40?
Better question: how much better will your sound equipment be?
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:06 (thirteen years ago) link
just stop listening to music for a few years and wait for your hearing to grow back
― ☞ ☹ (markers), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
it needs to grow. use some miracle grow
Sadly, that doesn't happen either.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I have pretty good sound equipment kenan - it's kind of embarrassing tbh
― dayo, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
An embarrassment of richness of audio?
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the problem is my music sounds so good that I never don't not want to be listening, so yes, an embarrassment of richness
― dayo, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so good it hertz
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I wish hearing grew back :/
― Passive Attack (Trayce), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Perfect. Thank you for that.
There are a lot of ways to lose your hearing, and we honestly don't fully understand the interplay between brain and ear quite enough to say, "Never listen to loud music!" because people are different. Getting older is obvious, because the loss of bone will lead to to the loss of the tiny, tiny bones in your ear as well. Loud sounds can damage your hearing, but sometimes it comes back quickly, and sometimes never at all. Tinnitus is the weirdest thing of all. It's correlated with hearing loss, but not at all linked causally. We have no idea what's going on there, really.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck was it perfect, should of course have been 'hertz so good' but what can you do eh
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
No need to remind everyone of early Mellencamp.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
14 thru laptop speaker, 16 thru headphones
― J0rdan S., Monday, 20 September 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
latterday bryan adams, more's the shame
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel worse for people who remember Bryan Adams songs than people with slight-to-moderate hearing loss, tbh.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
real low point for mel c imo
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus 12 is the highest I can hear, even in headphones. I knew my hearing was screwy.
― Passive Attack (Trayce), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Or your headphones might be crappy. So take heart!
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, I have very bad hearing :( I'm soemthing like maybe 50% deaf in one ear? I need to get it checked out properly mind you.
― Passive Attack (Trayce), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
high frequencies are for losers anyway, voices/normal sounds occur in the midrange tbh
― dayo, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
And fucking AWESOME sounds are in the low range. No matter what Geir says.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
poll chipmunks vs johnny cash
― illiterate mods are killing ilx (darraghmac), Monday, 20 September 2010 01:47 (thirteen years ago) link
As long as I can hear in the mid range, and also hear and feel the kind of bass that makes tendon not so affectionate toward bone anymore, I'll be a happy guy.
― kenan, Monday, 20 September 2010 01:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 8 June 2012 00:01 (twelve years ago) link
huh, i was reading through this thinking i'd done it before, not noticing the posting date.
17k, with the volume up. i feel i can hear the tiniest bit of not-silence in 18k, but... no.
― Merdeyeux, Friday, 8 June 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link
weird. i answered "16" a year back, but i can now hear something in nearly all of these. only 22 sounds like dead silence. past 15, though, they're all just pitched hissing at the edge of audition, so maybe i'm hearing some kind of interference and not the actual test tone. hard to tell.
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
10
― sarahell, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
15
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
17
― balls, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:30 (twelve years ago) link
15k--earwax and infections, not loud music.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
~14-15, did lots of damage in my 20s
― sissy space echo (electricsound), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link
15k and i had to crank it. 16k there is absolutely nothing
my constant ambient hum is at about 14k, i now know *thumbs up*
― goole, Friday, 8 June 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i can still remember the show where i woke up the next morning and knew i had really fucked something up. thanks trans am!
oh god yeah that happened to me a couple of years ago, scared the shit out of me. felt like I was underwater all day :(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
I can hear 16, but 17 is nothing.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
16, that's okay, half way.
― jel --, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
17 and an idea of 18 but i voted 17this makes me feel kind of better about not keeping my earplugs in for all of acid mothers temple a couple of months ago and having my ears ring for a day and a half afterwards
also if you have cats, play this for them! my cat seemed to want to get inside my speakers or at least attack them at 22kHz
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
seriously though, Etymotic earplugs 4 lyfe
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
17, but i turned the volume up to do it
― thomp, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
whoohoo, still 18 a year later. dog is really pissed at me right now though
― I want L'interieur chicken, not Hausu chicken (jjjusten), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
15k in one ear, 17k in the other. Gonna try this again when I am not congested
But I have suspicions it is accurate
― mh, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
17k, my bat senses are fucked
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Friday, 8 June 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
i thought i imagined 2010
― DG, Friday, 8 June 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
You know what the oddest thing is, that certain frequencies seem to have gone, and others haven't?
I can't hear 14k on the scale going up - but at 19k and 21k I can hear again. Or I don't know if hear is the right word, but I can definitely tell, in my right ear, that there is sound. Which is odd, because my right ear is by far the deafer of the two. So I wonder if I've just killed one part of the frequency range worse than others, or if my deafer ear can someone feel sound that I can't technically hear?
― Coolyplay G (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Friday, 8 June 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
I can hear the 15kHz tone clearly. 16 and 17 I had to turn right up to hear a faint noise barely any higher pitched than 15. 18: nothing. RIP my hearing.
I remember talking to a friend who makes techno who said that all his favourite electronic musicians had suddenly gone crap in their 30s and he blamed the loss of high frequencies. Being a few years older than him, I wanted it to be rubbish then and I want it to be even more so now.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I notice a real difference in frequency response if I swap ears when I'm on the phone, but it doesn't seem to make much difference for these. 17 is faintly there in both (a little louder in the right) but 18 is gone in both.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit! 12 kHz was the highest I could definitely tell I was hearing something.
― 9 1/2 Gleeks (WmC), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:11 (twelve years ago) link
17kHz. I will start to feel old when I can no longer hearThe Mosquito (17.4 kHz), but I'm afraid it won't be long now.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
actually I can barely make out the 18 khz tone, and I can definitely make it out here. I'm really just posting this for my future reference.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
shit, I can hear a faint, squealing something all the way up to 22 khz (though 22 might be a bit of a stretch), but it's hard to separate the tone from interference + my imagination + the ringing in my ears from hearing lower tones.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
so, 18 for sure, 19-22 inconclusive but damn my ears hurt.
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
*cochlear nerve melts*
― barman's bar mitz (unregistered), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
Can't hear 17, 18, 19 & 20 at all (even with volume all the way up), but can hear 21 and 22.Does that make any sense?
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yes. Hearing loss can occur at specific frequencies, with both higher and lower frequencies intact.
― Aimless, Friday, 8 June 2012 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
I have so-called 'disco-ears' for sure. Can't hear a thing people say in a crowded room.I suppose these are the frequencies that do me in.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Friday, 8 June 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I have problems hearing things people say in crowded rooms, too, but I've always figured that it was auditory processing disorder.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
Disco ears!
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
auditory processing disorder
Different roads may lead to Rome, in this case.With me it is definitely a matter of damage done during my high volume teenage metal head years.
― Sebastian (Royal Mermaid Mover), Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:06 (eleven years ago) link
I can hear up to 20, but I am wearing noise-cancelling earphones, and without them I doubt I could hear past about 16, the last couple were barely audible.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 9 June 2012 00:07 (eleven years ago) link
with these headphones I can hear up to 21
― crüt, Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
whoa with headphones in i can hear up to 21 too!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Saturday, 9 June 2012 01:50 (eleven years ago) link
"Disco ears" is a good phrase but "hearing things people say in crowded rooms" already has a pretty good name:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
(I am terrible at that too - if there's another conversation happening in the office I'll miss half of what the person talking to me says)
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 9 June 2012 10:08 (eleven years ago) link
Barely 15. 320kbs MP3s are probably good enough for me.
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Saturday, 9 June 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
With headphones and the volume up and the air conditioning off, I can hear something on all of them. 18 and 19 are just a faint hiss (maybe compression artifacts?) but the top frequencies are actual tones. I was worried there for a while!
― 9 1/2 Gleeks (WmC), Saturday, 9 June 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
I had an audiogram a few years ago and I was pretty flat out to about 14kHz, beyond which it dropped rapidly. They weren't testing absolute upper limit though, but amplitude profile. The audiologist bloody loved me. Just ran my own tests generating sine waves in Audacity and I can't perceive anything beyond about 15k now (and it certainly drops beyond 11-12k). Could be the soundcard or the headphones - maybe I'll burn some tones to disc in quasi-random order and listen on the Grados at some point...
I wouldn't worry too much about progressive loss in the mid-high teens - comes to us all (I'm 43 so my days of hearing 18k are over, I'm sure), it's down in the 2k-6k range where hearing loss is most destructive. Plenty of sound guys and musicians are fine out to the mid-teens but completely stuffed down there, like 20 or 30dB down from ideal.
As for MP3s - well, they rely on masking at high frequencies, so even if you're a young'un and can hear a full-scale 19kHz sine wave clear as day, doesn't mean you'd be able to perceive the lack of those frequencies in a psychoacoustically-processed lossy file of actual, busy, full-spectrum music.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 9 June 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
14. I'm hoping it's just both these sets of headphones :/
― brimstead, Friday, 21 March 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
i can hear 21 very faintly but not 22. i had to crank the volume up on my headphones to hear it though.
― Treeship, Friday, 21 March 2014 06:37 (ten years ago) link
although 17 is the last one that sounds as loud as the others. idk
― Treeship, Friday, 21 March 2014 06:41 (ten years ago) link
Same for me. Can hear up to 21, gets gradually quieter after 17.
― DDD, Friday, 21 March 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
on my headset I could hear up to 21
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 18 February 2017 05:04 (seven years ago) link
20 through MBP speakers. Fascinating how 20 is clear and completely noticeable and 21 is nada, not even a hope of straining, pretending to hear.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 18 February 2017 09:14 (seven years ago) link
21 if I put my ear very close to a speaker but no 22 even then
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Saturday, 18 February 2017 09:16 (seven years ago) link
I hear the slightest strain in 21 but it's so small that im going with 20. But hearing those notes feels so uncomfortable,
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Sunday, 19 February 2017 08:47 (seven years ago) link