How is your high frequency hearing?

[SirMjac28]

I'm sorry what?

 

[4Mal]

Not sure of the freq but I hear my tinnitus clear as a bell...

 

[tjh]

age 60 ... 12K

 

[Pako]

Not sure of the freq but I hear my tinnitus clear as a bell...

I'm with ya there. At 18k I start to feel uneasy. I can "feel" 18k with 17/16k the first frequency lower than my tinnitus which I now know is around 17-18 khz.

41 with 26 years of loud stereos and my bass!

 

[Jeff Scott]

The lower the number the winner you are.

 

[ThisBass]

Age 54, around 12..13 kHz

 

[Mark Reccord]

A more telling metric on noise-induced damage would be your response between 1kHz and 4kHz as that's the range where our ears are most sensitive and where most noise-related damage occurs. Miraculously, I can still hear up to 16kHz and my last hearing test showed a -0.5dB dip around 4kHz on the right side. Otherwise, my sensitivity is 5dB better than average for my age group. I'm 42 and have been playing in bands and mixing sound for 23 years now, including several years touring at the arena/shed level as a sound engineer, with I think rather a lot of exposure to loud music. How I don't have tinnitus or major hearing damage is beyond me. I was pretty reckless about it when I was younger, pretty paranoid about it now. Always carry earplugs and if I'm not actually mixing or playing, they're in.

 

[heynorm]

I'm 64. I started to hear the tones at 15kHz, using Sony MDR-7606 in studio, under the my constant tinnitus from too many years in band and radio. (Although I don't run my cans anywhere at hot as when in my 20's.)

 

[Jools4001]

I'm 59 and a half (too close to 60 too soon) I'm around 14-15K on my iPad...might improve a bit if I put my headphones on, but I now know my tinnitus is at 9K

 

[drpepper]

49 yo - 16kHz

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Retested. Different earbuds. On my Mac.
16k
50 yo ....
Also for sensitivity it did the warble test as with others my age range a small dip at 4k

 

[pactribe]

14K at 35 years old.

That's why I quit DJ-ing last year.

 

[Gaolee]

I just listened to it again, only this time with headphones. I can hear 13K without a problem. My ears are better than I though a higher frequencies. I suspect there is damage at some lower frequencies.

 

[agedhorse]

After 30+ years of mixing FOH at least 3 days a week, I can still hear 16kHz. I also participate in the H.E.A.R program that our industry supports, get tested at every trade show where the boots are set up.

You can bet that I have been quite careful to protect my ears over the years, I still don't understand the guys who need to be over the top loud and still don't wear protection. They have self-limited their own careers.

 

[cardboardJoe]

Huh?

 

[dincz]

I can hear subwoofers.

 

[hyp.spec]

27 and I can hear start hearing at 20k on my laptop speakers and 19k on headphones -- but my headphones are also -8db abover 19k.

Several years of no ear protection in a hard rock/metal band have certainly taken a toll. I can definitely tell the hearing on my left is ear noticeably quieter than my right (stupid crash cymbals!).

I'm way, way, way more conscious now about hearing protection!

 

[chris_b]

I haven't tested my hearing. They can't tell me anything I don't already know . . . . . my hearing is screwed. Not by cymbals but by guitarists.

I've been using custom molded ear plugs for the last 8 years and foam plugs for about 10 years before that. These little beauties are the only thing keeping me gigging.

I have more watts in my current amp than all of the amps in my first 2 bands put together!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. As a musician the most stupid, stupid thing you can do is to not protect your hearing.

 

[Technotitclan]

Finally got to run the tests with ok headphones. I got 16k. I also did the more extensive tests and it shows normal for me but with a bit of mild loss on the lowest frequencies. Pretty fun to got to see the results.