How good/bad are your ears?

[Forpie]

I've hit the 15000hz mark

 

[Ebidis]

I could hear everything above 100hz, but above 10k it was difficult.

However, I don't know how much of that may be due to my laptop speakers, and how much is my ears.

 

[ThebiggestJerk]

12800hz for me. It would probably be higher but 40+ years of loud guitars and rock & roll will get ya’ some hearing loss.

 

[Dadocaster]

Seriously ?

 

[Deebs3]

11700 for me, sounds like its from a sci-fi movie..

 

[StratUp]

I got an app for my phone to do the same. That let me try it with headphones. I got to about 13K. Above that, I didn't get anything, but I can't be sure it's not just the headphones (and buds) that I tried, despite their claim of 20K upper limit.

 

[Otisblove]

What did you call me?

 

[joe_cpwe]

I got somewhere to just below 12k but above 10 it really messed with my tenitus

 

[4wotitswurth]

6k, not surprising. Tested once for work related posting, the lab tester thought her equipment had failed. It came from working long hours offshore situated right under a diesel onan generator, 5ft above my head….

 

[Eric_G]

Started earring easily in the 20s hz all the way up to the 15Kh…

But that’s with a set if iPod on !

 

[crankmeister]

12800hz for me. It would probably be higher but 40+ years of loud guitars and rock & roll will get ya’ some hearing loss.

I got about the same. Heard all the lows, but missed the highest, made no difference between headphones and iPhone. Hurt my ears, too, I had to turn it all the way down from around 700 Hz on.

All I can hope for is that my hearing loss is an impermanent state caused by my recent history of ear problems from constant post-nasal congestion from being allergic to pretty much everything in my environment.

 

[ThebiggestJerk]

I got about the same. Heard all the lows, but missed the highest, made no difference between headphones and iPhone. Hurt my ears, too, I had to turn it all the way down from around 700 Hz on.

All I can hope for is that my hearing loss is an impermanent state caused by my recent history of ear problems from constant post-nasal congestion from being allergic to pretty much everything in my environment.

I’m right there with you!

 

[Deafsoundguy]

Well I uh…..

 

[nosmo]

Tinnitus drowns out a LOT of stuff. WWWWOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

[Hal Nico]

Around once a month I use ear-wax softener and run warm water into my ears to keep them clean. I've done this for years ever since having my ears professionally syringed.

I use this extensive online test to keep track of my hearing loss/change as all humans lose the ability to hear higher frequencies as we age and at different volumes. I do this so I try not to over or under compensate when recording.

Free hearing test on line – Equal loudness contours and audiometry

This free hearing test on line is an interactive test to produce equal loudness curves or equal loudness congtours.

newt.phys.unsw.edu.au

HTH

 

[Thrup'ny Bit]

I don't know how much of that may be due to my laptop speakers

A lot.

 

[somebodyelesuk]

I'm on a laptop, so the test is irrelevant to me - don't assume your speakers are up to the test. However, when I had cancer a few years back, I had to have my hearing tested before and after chemo. 'Excellent for my age' was the medic's opinion. I can live with that.
FWIW, the guy who mixed Dark Side Of The Moon said recently that he can't hear above about 10k, these days...

 

[guitarmikey]

Test should be done with very good (studio) headphones only. Even better, ear after ear, the other one without headphones on…

 

[ukoldgit]

12000 (with headphones) not too bad for 71 and previously sitting under jet fighters with the afterburners going.

 

[Guitarchaeologist]

~88Hz to 10.4K Hz w/computer speakers
20Hz to 10K Hz w/cheap headphones

Apparently, not so good.