Can You Hear Like a Teenager?

[FADEC]

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/

Indeed I am not able to hear anything above a 15 kHz tone. Even if I use headphones and set the volume to the highest possible setting, I can barely hear the tones above 15 kHz.

 

[liber]

Don't worry I can't hear it to but don't have headphones and my usual ear buzzing and PC vent prevent to hear it if I can hear it.
Probably my year of production have some fingers in it.

 

[Artlav]

26 y.o.
Clearly up to 18kHz, hard-cut off at about 19kHz with the left ear that had serious inflammation a decade ago.
Clearly up to 16kHz, hard-cut off at about 17kHz with the right ear.

Be sure to test it with a purpose-built ultrasonic tweeter and a sine wave generator - the PC sound system could have quantization harmonics at these frequencies, making you hear something even when you don't hear the main tone.

It's actually kind of annoying - i can clearly hear flyback whine in CRTs of all kinds, and i can locate the store that sells (or uses) ultrasonic rat repellers from hundreds of metres away.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

26 y.o.
Clearly up to 18kHz, hard-cut off at about 19kHz with the left ear that had serious inflammation a decade ago.
Clearly up to 16kHz, hard-cut off at about 17kHz with the right ear.

Be sure to test it with a purpose-built ultrasonic tweeter and a sine wave generator - the PC sound system could have quantization harmonics at these frequencies, making you hear something even when you don't hear the main tone.

It's actually kind of annoying - i can clearly hear flyback whine in CRTs of all kinds, and i can locate the store that sells (or uses) ultrasonic rat repellers from hundreds of metres away.

So, you actually have better hearing in the ear that was infected?

 

[n72.75]

First off, I'm 21.

I can't hear anything above 16khz.

I blame working on tugboats for three years and my addiction to power-metal.

 

[Capt_hensley]

I'm 48, def as a post, but I can still hear the sound of freedom, Jet noise and Rocket exhaust, that's all that matters. Anyone got a way to help me not hear my wife?

 

[worir1]

Im 14 i can hear like a teenager

 

[Artlav]

So, you actually have better hearing in the ear that was infected?

Yes, surprisingly or not.
Maybe it didn't grown as it should have, or the membrane got thinner, increasing sensitivity - never actually researched why.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Yes, surprisingly or not.
Maybe it didn't grown as it should have, or the membrane got thinner, increasing sensitivity - never actually researched why.

:lol:, its just too funny, like a movie script. Its your superpower!

Does it ever sort of disorient you, what with different balance between each ear?

 

[jedidia]

first, you have to have really good speakers/headphones for such a test.

second, I have a 19 years career as a drummer. No, I certainly don't hear that well anymore, despite wearing earplugs anywhere where noise exceeds mild shouting levels. It might be ironic, but musicans just don't have that good a hearing after a while, no matter the protection...

 

[Codz]

Heard all of them with and without headphones.

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

first, you have to have really good speakers/headphones for such a test.

second, I have a 19 years career as a drummer. No, I certainly don't hear that well anymore, despite wearing earplugs anywhere where noise exceeds mild shouting levels. It might be ironic, but musicans just don't have that good a hearing after a while, no matter the protection...

Very true about musicians & their hearing.

I wonder what the occupational hearing hazards are for astronauts. Would a Saturn V launch permanently damage someones hearing?

 

[Artlav]

Its your superpower!

Lost the superpower lottery, it would seem...

Does it ever sort of disorient you, what with different balance between each ear?

Not really. It's handy to tell if my head is buzzing or someone is just watching an old tv nearby.
There is just not enough HF ambient around to get any disorientation.

 

[Izack]

Lost the superpower lottery, it would seem...

Might not be Daredevil, but possibly Tony Stark (Russian Edition.)

 

[Loru]

Left: up to 17kHz (included) / Right: up to 16 kHz (included)

 

[Artlav]

Got the tone generator together again.

Looks like i can hear up to 20Khz, but between 19 and 20 it's more like feel-it-with-the-skull than hear-with-an-ear.

Above 20 it's as good as nothing, but with volume high enough there is a sense of a presence of a sound, even though no sound is heard. Hard to describe.

 

[Pablo49]

22 years old, can hear up to 17kHz in each ear, can't hear 18 in either.

 

[Quick_Nick]

I think I've been able to hear 19kHz before. Not sure if it's my hearing or speakers, but I just hear up to 18kHz on this test.
On my last year as a teenager.

 

[Lars789852]

I can hear 17 khz, but at 18khz I hear nothing but the pc-fans. I'm 17 years old.

 

[ex-orbinaut]

I cannot imagine anyone, unless they are completely as deaf as a post, not hearing with complete clarity each one of those tones on that link. What's the catch? Am I doing the test wrong? :shrug:

EDIT:

Ah, okay. Sound card issue, as explained here. The 48 Khz sample rate version on this page is more like it.

http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php