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My tinnitus takes the form of an extremely high pitched noise that I usually only hear in extremely quiet settings, and even then I'm usually not aware of it unless I'm doing nothing.Spanky The Dolphin wrote:I thought Tinnitus wasn't so much actual hearing loss but more like just a form of hearing damage?
I can just about make out 15.8 kHz, above that I just hear the background hiss.
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My standard speaker setting is around 1/8th maximum volume. I can hear the 19 at twice that, which is still comfortable, but loud enough that it's as disrupting to conversation as TV. I play games at that level. The 21 whatever one is veeeeeery noticable at that level and it makes this horrific dizzzzzzt noise. I can hear it on Media Player classic at normal and on WMP on full volume easily. The sound is less crisp and softer on WMP, and less mind-boring. The lower frequency ones are just regoddamdiculously painful.Isana Kadeb wrote:What sorts of volume you guys listening to the higher frequencies at? Beyond 17khz I have to turn up the volume quite a bit to hear it.
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17.7 kHz was the highest I could hear. Kind of disappointed about that, because I'm pretty careful about my hearing. But my perfect pitch worked on the 14.4 kHz one (I could tell it was an A), which was pretty cool. Usually my sense of pitch tends to die once it gets too high or too low.
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18.8kHz tone (Though I'm not sure if my speakers can handle higher tones) at age 18.
Bah, certainly didn't affect me at the Classical Concert last night, even with extremely high pitch tones on the violin
Bah, certainly didn't affect me at the Classical Concert last night, even with extremely high pitch tones on the violin
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Yeah, it was pretty bad. My ears weren't ringing, they just felt like they do when I bang them with the q-tip thing by mistake. It was pretty horrific. They're still pretty sore, but no longer feel like there were needles in them.Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:High-frequency noises break stuff in your head too?Covenant in Jaepheth's Blender thread wrote:...but I'm still in a near death state from that goddamn sound test.
According to the audiologist test I had done a couple weeks ago, my hearing's good to 17.5kHz or so, with my right ear being down about 1-2dB across the entire frequency range. There's also a mild dip from 1-4kHz in both ears thanks to too many loud rock concerts. However, overall sensitivity is still well above average, I can hear a pin drop onto carpet from across the room. This makes trying to sleep at night an exercise in futility when my sleep schedule gets out of whack and I'm suffering from insomnia, I can hear everything and it drives me nuts.
On this test I can hear up to 17.7kHz, after that I can still pick it up from the clicks when each tone starts & stops.
On this test I can hear up to 17.7kHz, after that I can still pick it up from the clicks when each tone starts & stops.
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I think my speakers crapped out on me, because on the higher three or so I heard tones that were definitely not above 14 kHz. So I'll think I'll trust the real hearing test I took a while back, which said I have pretty much perfect hearing...
Also: My fucking ears hurt now!!
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17.7 Khz here at age 24.
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I imagine the pain as a laser slicing into soft brain matter. It HURTS!Covenant wrote:Yeah, it was pretty bad. My ears weren't ringing, they just felt like they do when I bang them with the q-tip thing by mistake. It was pretty horrific. They're still pretty sore, but no longer feel like there were needles in them.Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:High-frequency noises break stuff in your head too?Covenant in Jaepheth's Blender thread wrote:...but I'm still in a near death state from that goddamn sound test.
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No. If you can't percieve it, then you won't percieve it no matter how much energy you throw behind it.* The response of most consumer-grade audio tends to drop off dramatically around or above twenty kilohertz and below around twenty hertz. It's not a perfect cut-off, though. The response starts decreasing before you hit those points. So the actual volume coming from your speakers at those frequencies is lower than it should be. So it's useful to turn up the volume to make sure that you're actually percieving something between the clicks demarcating the beginning and end of the tone.Shinova wrote:Is raising the speaker volume sort of like cheating or something?
(* - Well, up to the point where you're throwing enough energy at it to do you physical harm in short order. But this takes a lot of energy.)
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Some of us are worse then others. I know I'm particularly lazy with my pronounciation. I'll often try to say something too quickly while dropping a consonant every now and then.Spin Echo wrote:I was rather surprised that my hearing was fine as well. I think the kiwis just have a tendency to mumble.Spyder wrote:21.4...I'd actually assumed my hearing was quite bad, I'm often saying "sorry, what?"
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Being able to hear certain frequencies and the actual ability to interpret the sound are sometimes two very different things. My mother, for example, fares very well on the frequency ranges that can hear but sometimes has issues with cognition, IE: needing people to repeat something.Spyder wrote:21.4...I'd actually assumed my hearing was quite bad, I'm often saying "sorry, what?"
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I think my computer automatically drops down octaves, because I heard it clearly up through 21.1, and the sound wasn't sequentially increasing.
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