Thread: So just how much can you hear?

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/...-hearing-test/

Give this a go. I could hear 18, but nothing higher.

I could hear 17, but nothing after that.
I'm 22.

Cool.

I couldn't hear past 18.

I could hear all of them.

I wear hearing protection about 75% of the time that I'm working. I fix planes, so it's pretty important.

19 was the highest I could hear.

Someone was on digg today. I just saw this a little bit ago and I had fun being able to hear the higher frequencies while no one else here could hear anything above 14k.

31 years old.

can still hear 18khz

can hear 20k
16 male

I could only hear up to 16k, i'm 17.

I hooked my laptop up to my good speakers and was able to hear up to 22khz. At work though I couldn't hear anything past 17k and I think it was because of the speakers.

Originally Posted by piranhas

Edit:
Just took it again with my headphone volume turned up at got to 20 this time.

Yeah, it depends too much on that so I really have no idea which was accurate.

also my eyes now hurt

I heard all of them but, like sycld was saying earlier, I may have only been hearing certain undertones or something in the higher frequencies. But I don't care enough to figure it.

also sycld (or anyone that has an answer), do you have any tried and true recipes for vegetable korma you could pm me

i want it to taste authentic

I know I heard up to 19kHz. I'm not sure if I can hear 20kHz. There's a lot of high pitch ambient noise where I am.

19 registered some sound, but it was faint. 20 was just about completely silent for me

barely heard 20.

i have a sound that is remarkably like 19K ringing in my ears all the time, very quietly

it is certainly quite annoying

14, too many kabooms in my trade.

Im' 19 and I can hear 22.

But I'm listening through studio reference monitors, regular speakers etc will generally only have a decent response up to about 19, so don't be worried if it's lower than you'd think.

I can hear 16 and I am 20. I listen to my iPod a whole lot.

Originally Posted by coqauvin

i have a sound that is remarkably like 19K ringing in my ears all the time, very quietly

it is certainly quite annoying

That's called tinnitus and you should get it checked. You really don't want to go deaf before you reach 80.

I could hear 18. That's also how old I am.

Originally Posted by simonj

That's called tinnitus and you should get it checked. You really don't want to go deaf before you reach 80.

i know it is tinnitus, and wheni asked my family doctor about it he identified it, and when i asked what he could do about it, he said 'nothing'

so here i am

Tinnitus is the tiny hairs in your ear, which sense vibrations dying. Which is why you hear it most after extremes of volume, but it can just come on for no reason. After a while it'll go away, but you will suffer reduced hearing ability.

Unfortunately there's not really a lot that can be done unless you want a hearing aid, pretty pointless when all you're suffering is slight high frequency loss.

Originally Posted by Lewis

Tinnitus is the tiny hairs in your ear, which sense vibrations dying. Which is why you hear it most after extremes of volume, but it can just come on for no reason. After a while it'll go away, but you will suffer reduced hearing ability.

Unfortunately there's not really a lot that can be done unless you want a hearing aid, pretty pointless when all you're suffering is slight high frequency loss.

oh i've had it peak every now and then and cause me trouble, and i've heard the death cries of frequencies i'll never be able to hear again

but i mean literally every second of the day, there is this high pitched squeal or whine that sounds remarkably like 19k on my speakers, just quiet, all the time.

my cousin has the same thing and i remember the two of us having discussions baout how there was no such thing as silence