How's your hearing?

squidman001 · Post by **squidman001** » 2006-12-10 01:13am

I was able to hear up to 21.1, but i couldn't hear the 17.7 or 18.8. What is up with that?

J · Post by J » 2006-12-10 10:38pm

I can hear up to 18kHz, after that it's just clicks & pops.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2006-12-10 10:40pm

squidman001 wrote:I was able to hear up to 21.1, but i couldn't hear the 17.7 or 18.8. What is up with that?

I'd guess that there's some weird resonance & distortion problem with your speakers or headphones once you get past 18.8kHz. You're not hearing the 20kHz tones, you're hearing the distortions caused by the transducers attempting to reproduce the tones.

Wyrm · Post by **Wyrm** » 2006-12-11 04:46pm

I can still hear into the 21.1 kHz range at its lowest volume (through headphones), and I'm 30. Yay. No busted Organ of Corti for me!

Just for fun, I tried the 22.4 kHz range result as well as my actual result. I'm not sharing what it says.

Bertie Wooster · Post by **Bertie Wooster** » 2006-12-11 05:20pm

17.7

I was expecting worse, honestly.

FSTargetDrone · Post by **FSTargetDrone** » 2006-12-12 11:39pm

21.1kHz

Easy peasy. I didn't even have to turn my speakers' volume past what it's normally at.

And I'm 32 years old, so ha to all of you youngin's.

Edit, from some of your comments, perhaps I am hearing a buzz sound that isn't the actual tone?

We'd need to all do this test with the same speakers.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2006-12-12 11:59pm

It was a distinctive EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! sound to me at 21.1.

Sony MDR-V150 headphones slaved to the mobo's integrated soundchip set.

Dargos · Post by **Dargos** » 2006-12-14 03:57am

18.8khz not bad for an old man.(36)

Korvan · Post by **Korvan** » 2006-12-14 11:56am

17.7 here, which isn't too bad for an old fogey of 35.