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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
10
― sarahell, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
15
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
17
― balls, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
15k--earwax and infections, not loud music.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
~14-15, did lots of damage in my 20s
― sissy space echo (electricsound), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link
I did this again with my very good headphones and... well, after 12khz I can still hear something but its like a very soft distant hiss? That cantbe the actual frequency tho cos in that case I can hear all of them and that cant be right.
― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
I have an actual hole in one eardrum so its very unlikely my hearing's that good tbh.
10. Not surprised. I continue to morph into my father.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 June 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
21K. Tone sounds lower than the 16-18k ones. the click of the sound file playing I can hear for all of them.
Ive spent the last decade obsessing over having earplugs in at every show ever, or if not, wet toilet paper.
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
19K
― ciderpress, Friday, 8 June 2012 03:31 (eleven years ago) link
14K wtf?
― George Peppard Steak (snoball), Friday, 8 June 2012 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
I'm saying 20K, the last two seem silent to me.
I tried the 8K one, damn near deafened me!
― Mark G, Friday, 8 June 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
15 through ipod headphones. interested to try with other better headphones/speakers although tiny earphone speakers shouldn't have a problem with high freqs, right?
― Jesu swept (ledge), Friday, 8 June 2012 10:24 (eleven years ago) link
also ;_;
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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I can hear 16, but 17 is nothing.
― Björk lied (Eric H.), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
16, that's okay, half way.
― jel --, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:04 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
seriously though, Etymotic earplugs 4 lyfe
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 8 June 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
17, but i turned the volume up to do it
― thomp, Friday, 8 June 2012 19:41 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
17k, my bat senses are fucked
― Zaireeka Badu (NickB), Friday, 8 June 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
i thought i imagined 2010
― DG, Friday, 8 June 2012 21:56 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (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