How good are your ears?

[probzy]

me too.

 

[bloodugly]

I tested with some Sennheiser studio headphones....the super high frequencies definitely weren't comfy for me.

 

[HombrePequeno]

I can hear up to 16k. I'm not sure how good my 3 year old laptop speakers are though.

 

[judasmachine]

I already know I'm going deaf. It gets interesting sometimes, as I hear money as bunny, and such. I get denied jobs at places that have high decibel working enviornments.

 

[CorCentral]

19k (32 years old)
Headphones are top rated JVC HA-DX3's

FK SennhYSER! Almost as bad a Bose BLOWS!

 

[HamburgerBoy]

16000Hz is the highest I can hear clearly, but I can just barely hear 17000Hz and can't hear anything higher than that. It's probably because of my $15 speakers more than anything.

 

[bloodugly]

Originally posted by: CorCentral
19k (32 years old)
Headphones are top rated JVC HA-DX3's

FK SennhYSER! Almost as bad a Bose BLOWS!

HD650 headphones DON't blow. Find some reviews.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: enz660hp
I am using the onboard sound card right now, I tried this with my cheap ass 90watt stereo and quality headphones....got the same results from both, I could hear all of the freqencies.....22000 was the hardest one though....and 25000 is as easy to hear as 21000....bad test? You try

http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63

You're just hearing distortion on both. I highly doubt you'll hear 21KHz with either setups. The fact that you claimed you can hear 25000 just as easily confirms this.

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: MBrown
I heard all the way up to 25k

You heard static and distortion all the way up to 25, like many others here.

 

[Jeff7]

Interesting to note too - some are MP3, some are WAV. Some are mono, some are stereo.
I used Goldwave to create an 18,000HZ sample to compare with their MP3 sample, and a 25,000Hz (96KHz sampling rate of course) file to compare with theirs. The 25KHz files matched up very closely in their pattern. The 18HKz though were fairly different, probably because the author used lossy compression.

Definitely not an accurate test.

 

[yhelothar]

Best way to do this test is to get a frequency generator program like SigJenny.

 

[neutralizer]

I couldn't hear anywhere above 12 KHz, I guess that's what happens when you use crappy Creative Inspiron speakers.

 

[xanis]

Originally posted by: MBrown
I heard all the way up to 25k

 

[Mark R]

Interesting.

I wonder how accurate this is due to defects in the coding process and variability in the performance of sound cards/integrated sound.

I can hear up to 16,000 Hz on that page - but if I generate my own samples in Audition I can hear up to 20,000 Hz. Interestingly, I can hear higher than 20 kHz more easily, but they don't sound as high pitched - what I'm probably hearing is distortion products.

A long while ago I had access to a research grade sound system including a 500 kHz DAC, true analog low-pass anti-aliasing filter at 40 kHz, high-end 'audio grade' amp (Arcam, I think) and state-of-the-art headphones. I could hear up to about 22 kHz - but what was interesting was that something in the system was causing weird distortions at very high frequencies (I could see stray peaks on the spectrum that came out of the amp).

 

[IHAVEAQUESTION]

I think it has more to do with my headphone instead of my ears. Although I do have a decent set of headphone (Sony V6).

 

[lyssword]

18k, $5 hadphones