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How is your high frequency hearing?

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

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#101
Didn't read all the comments (my bad).

I started hearing it clearly between the 16 and 14 Ks. My problem was that the pitch is exactly the same as my tinnitus in that range so it blends pérfectly from 16 K down.
Anyone else felt the same?

By the way I'm 38 and my right ear hearing is the one of a 65 yo person (according to my doctor). Pure loud music effect.
Use earplugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
#103
When I was setting up the monitors in my recording studio I used a test-tone CD and a SPL meter to get the placement with the most even response. I found that, once I got to 15kH, I could see the tone on the meter but I couldn't hear it. That was several years ago, and no doubt my hearing has deteriorated further.

I raced loud motorcycles in my distant youth, and spent some time in a tank outfit in the army, so I guess I ought to be happy just to have any hearing.:hmm:
 
#104
Bassmec said:
I still get about 17Khz but my mate Horry:
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says y'aal deaf as a post, he can hear at least 170Khz.
I still think he drinks too much though.:bassist:
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Well, he may think I'm deaf as a post, but he's blind as a bat.

Wait...
 
#105
escaraBAJO said:
Didn't read all the comments (my bad).

I started hearing it clearly between the 16 and 14 Ks. My problem was that the pitch is exactly the same as my tinnitus in that range so it blends pérfectly from 16 K down.
Anyone else felt the same?

By the way I'm 38 and my right ear hearing is the one of a 65 yo person (according to my doctor). Pure loud music effect.
Use earplugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Yep!
 
#109
53 years old. Me myself and some older colleagues as well we all checked ears with a sine generator a couple of months ago.
Appro 12..13K as a limiting value we are all in the ballpark of advanced age people around 50.
At the age of 50 years around there is no reason to talk home about if some ears can not capture frequencies beyond 12K

IMO 15..16K is likely a more proper value for young people generation whereas 12..13K is a ball park for the 50's.
 
#118
With white noise, I only got 7 out of 10 right at 16k, but I went to a site that has test tones and heard 16k fine. That was about as far as it went, though. Anything beyond that and I'm toast.
 
#119
53 and hearing up to 13-14k. A bit better than I expected because it's higher than the constant ringing in my ears, at about 10-11k. Also noticed a distinct drop off at 4k in the one test, but it comes back at 8k. Will be using hearing protection more often now, at work and at practice. Work in an auto shop, air-hammers and compressed air blow-drying parts are the worst. But also my current drummers Z-custom cymbals are the loudest I've ever heard in a band and I don't enjoy using ear plugs for blues. Oh well, I guess it's plugs until all those d.... cymbals are replaced.
 

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