How's your hearing?
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How's your hearing?
I thought the music forum would be the appropriate place to put a hearing test, so here it is:
http://www.ultrasonic-ringtones.com/
I myself got to 21.1 kHz, which comes as a huge releif given how many bands I've played in.
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I myself got to 21.1 kHz, which comes as a huge releif given how many bands I've played in.
I just had a medical check up which included an audiogram. My hearing was fine other than a slight dip at 6000Hz in both ears. I'm not sure what that is from; we have a persistant machine hum in the lab, so I'm wondering if that might be the cause.
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15.8KHz
Sorta sad about that.
Sorta sad about that.
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I could hear up to 17.7kHz (which is good considering all the indoor drumming I've done in my life), but if I cheated a little I could say 18.8kHz--not because I could hear the tone, but because I could hear the end the end of that static-y sound, not because I could hear a definite pitch.
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Trouble with this is that speakers don't always play sounds above a certain pitch. Most cut off between 18 and 24kHz; if you scored 17.7 or higher, that's your score--'or higher'.
Too, those who will score in the highest range should also hear a near-constant background hiss all the time
That said, I could clearly hear up to 18.8 on both headphones and boombox speakers, and 19.9 was barely audible on headphones. I found that my laptop speakers actually dropped an octive on 18.8 and above.
And, as Einhander said, the 22.4kHz one is silent
Too, those who will score in the highest range should also hear a near-constant background hiss all the time
That said, I could clearly hear up to 18.8 on both headphones and boombox speakers, and 19.9 was barely audible on headphones. I found that my laptop speakers actually dropped an octive on 18.8 and above.
And, as Einhander said, the 22.4kHz one is silent
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I got 21.4 KHz. It took turning up the volume to be absolutely sure, but I did hear it at my accustomed speaker volume.
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Almost 21 and I can hear the 21.1 just fine... unless those tones don't actually decrease in volume as they increase in frequency. In that case, I can barely hear it.
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You are a dog
Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can't be human.
The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz
Or maybe you are a mosquito, you certainly can't be human.
The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 21.1kHz
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I'm 22 and I can just barely hear the 21.4kHz tone at my normal speaker volume. I find any tone below 16.7kHz to be quite...irritating.
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Not really, since if it's too high you shouldn't hear it at all. Still, there would be a drop-off normally.
In my case, I was able to hear the 21.1 easily enough. Which is kinda interesting, since I seem to have mild tinnitus(sp?).
In my case, I was able to hear the 21.1 easily enough. Which is kinda interesting, since I seem to have mild tinnitus(sp?).
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I'm 25 and I can hear all of them besides that joker at the end, though I nearly fell out of my chair due to the incredible searing pain I AM STILL IN FROM IT.
HOLY SHIT MY EARS HURT.
My room has lots of background noise, what with an audible hiss I can hear from the monitor, the seven fan thermaltake case with a fan on the processor and graphics card bringing me close to a 10 fan box of doom, and a space heater hissing over here, so I turned it up. I can hear a brizzzzzzit between the clicks and I gotta say that I'm ready to admit to being a member of Al Qaeda and plotting to blow up the Hindenburg, just make the damn ringtones stop.
GOD ALMIGHTY IT HURTS MY CHEST.
That shit could kill me, I swear. I know it'd drive me fucking insane. I've never played in any bands, I always keep the volume incredibly low, and I religiously avoid headphones. Indoor sports arenas make me want to die, as do concerts or any sort of loud sounds. Ow. Ow ow ow.
I tried playing them through the windows media classic, not just WMP, and yeah, it's really loud and my earlobes feel all hot like when you go in an airplane. I almost died on a plane once that way--I had a stuffed up nose and my sinuses couldn't evacuate the air or something and I swore I was going to burst an eardrum at any moment. That was the longest two hours of my life. Ever since then I bring some sort of gum or something.
Oh, also, here's why I think my hearing is so funky--I got some sort of wierd waxy thing. My hearing was starting to get really lousy so I went to an ENT and he cleared me out. For weeks after that I could hear everything.
HOLY SHIT MY EARS HURT.
My room has lots of background noise, what with an audible hiss I can hear from the monitor, the seven fan thermaltake case with a fan on the processor and graphics card bringing me close to a 10 fan box of doom, and a space heater hissing over here, so I turned it up. I can hear a brizzzzzzit between the clicks and I gotta say that I'm ready to admit to being a member of Al Qaeda and plotting to blow up the Hindenburg, just make the damn ringtones stop.
GOD ALMIGHTY IT HURTS MY CHEST.
That shit could kill me, I swear. I know it'd drive me fucking insane. I've never played in any bands, I always keep the volume incredibly low, and I religiously avoid headphones. Indoor sports arenas make me want to die, as do concerts or any sort of loud sounds. Ow. Ow ow ow.
I tried playing them through the windows media classic, not just WMP, and yeah, it's really loud and my earlobes feel all hot like when you go in an airplane. I almost died on a plane once that way--I had a stuffed up nose and my sinuses couldn't evacuate the air or something and I swore I was going to burst an eardrum at any moment. That was the longest two hours of my life. Ever since then I bring some sort of gum or something.
Oh, also, here's why I think my hearing is so funky--I got some sort of wierd waxy thing. My hearing was starting to get really lousy so I went to an ENT and he cleared me out. For weeks after that I could hear everything.