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How is your high frequency hearing?

How is your High Frequency Hearing? ( test link inside )

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#41
Around 10khz is my musical limit, although I can hear higher frequencies. i.e. given different pitches around 10k, I can tell them which is higher or lower.

An ear doctor can test your with standardized medical equipment. It's usually free. Even if you don't have hearing problem they can still check your ears. Just like you should get your eyes checked even if you don't wear glasses.

Somebody may be able raise their hand to when they detect something at 15khz, but I doubt it's intelligible after you're a teenager. I saw a show on a kid 12-year-old math genius. He fooled an expert who's job it is to test and confirm real higher level abilities. This tester was looking for anybody feeding the kid answers - that was his job and he was experienced at it. Turns out they were feeding the kids answers through mosquito tones. The tester couldn't hear these tones. He was middle aged. They were 16khz tones, and the kid still had problems hearing them sometimes. Other noises interfered.

Maybe you can raise your hand with no other sounds are playing, but louder sounds always mask quieter ones, And midrange is going to dominate in human hearing.

The gold standard of Hi-Fi was FM radio for a long time. It is limited to 15khz at the highest.

Simple smartphone apps can detect high-frequency and the actual levels.

And talk to the doctor, but excessive noise, even low frequencies can damage high frequency hearing. It's just loud noise in general. Not loud noise at a specific frequency causing hearing damage.
 
#43
Great points... your speakers, computer sound card, headphones will ALL make a huge difference. And this is a pretty informal test. So take it for what it's worth.

That being said, I put the headphones on my 12 year old, started it an he immediately pulled them off wondring why I was trying to deafen him with high frequency! So that 22k sound is there.. and my 12 year old can hear it just fine. :)
 
#45
13 khz. Which is a nice surprise. I'm 60 and thought it was worse than that.

On the other hand...

I 'got' tinnitus 7 years ago after a ridiculously loud onstage audition. Thinking it would never happen to me, I'd never bothered with earlpugs.

Protect your hearing!
 
#49
With headphones, 15k-ish. Already voted and the poll won't let me change my vote, so oh well.

About 10 years ago somebody fired a rifle next to my left ear. Oops (ringggggg). Before that I worked around jet engines. I used hearing protection then, but still...

I almost always wear plugs now. My bandmates don't. They are younger and insist on learning the hard way. I've told them once and won't badger them about it.

I do hate singing with plugs in, and no matter how good the plugs are they will muffle the high end, so it's easy to see why people hate them. But I hate waking up with ringing ears even more.
 
#50
I'll wait to vote till i can get my good cans on but with my $13 Sony ear buds I got 16 but I'm thinking the headphones cant reproduce higher than that because I've heard higher recently coming from the vents here at work.

BTW I've listened to nothing but loud music my whole life. only recently started using plugs at practice. I'm 28.
 
#51
seamonkey said:
Somebody may be able raise their hand to when they detect something at 15khz, but I doubt it's intelligible after you're a teenager. I saw a show on a kid 12-year-old math genius. He fooled an expert who's job it is to test and confirm real higher level abilities. This tester was looking for anybody feeding the kid answers - that was his job and he was experienced at it. Turns out they were feeding the kids answers through mosquito tones. The tester couldn't hear these tones. He was middle aged. They were 16khz tones, and the kid still had problems hearing them sometimes. Other noises interfered.

Maybe you can raise your hand with no other sounds are playing, but louder sounds always mask quieter ones, And midrange is going to dominate in human hearing.

And talk to the doctor, but excessive noise, even low frequencies can damage high frequency hearing. It's just loud noise in general. Not loud noise at a specific frequency causing hearing damage.
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In the UK, people have started putting high-frequency emitters on buildings so that teenagers don't congregate around them. Theoretically, they aren't meant to be discernible for others.

In my case, I can hear them loud and clear, with and without traffic.

Age always degrades hearing but the age of deterioration varies. I'm still only 25 but I know my hearing has changed slightly.
 
#52
Spectrum said:
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I do hate singing with plugs in, and no matter how good the plugs are they will muffle the high end, so it's easy to see why people hate them. But I hate waking up with ringing ears even more.
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The band went in together on in ear monitors and a transmitter. Best thing in the world. Good fitting earbuds seem to act like great earplugs.. and you can hear yourself sing GREAT. 4 of the 5 of us in the band all sing and the in ears made us all sing better.. It was the best thing we ever did to sound better. And I don't get back from gigs or practice with ringing ears.
 
#58
I am at 11K maybe 12K , marked 12K on the poll since there is no 11K on it . (giving myself a little grace , lol )

I am 58 years old , I've worked in car repair shops , wood shop (7 years) and sculpture shop complete with metal foundry (24 years of a variety of grinders, drills, drill press, T.I.G. welders , M.I.G. welders , arc welding , plasma cutter , band saws , one million BTU natural gas foundry furnace , oxy-acetylene torches, spray booth , hammers , table saws , chop saws , radial arm saws , nibblers , die grinders , jig saws , etcetera). Plus throw in hot rods , dune buggy , race cars , drag boat and good ol rock and roll. LOL

Is that enough excuses ?

Now I'm just comfortably numb .
 
#59
Jammin Johneboy said:
I am at 11K maybe 12K , marked 12K on the poll since there is no 11K on it . (giving myself a little grace , lol )

I am 58 years old , I've worked in car repair shops , wood shop (7 years) and sculpture shop complete with metal foundry (24 years of a variety of grinders, drills, drill press, T.I.G. welders , M.I.G. welders , arc welding , plasma cutter , band saws , one million BTU natural gas foundry furnace , oxy-acetylene torches, spray booth , hammers , table saws , chop saws , radial arm saws , nibblers , die grinders , jig saws , ecetera). Plus throw in hot rods , dune buggy , race cars , drag boat and good ol rock and roll. LOL

Is that enough excuses ?

Now I'm just comfortably numb . LOL
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Rock and Roll is the only excuse needed around here.
 

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