How much do you hear?

[SKORPI0]

What

Barely hear 22 KHz. But I've been careful with my hearing, barely exposed myself with nosies around me whenever I can avoid it. Quit some jobs because of it, even when issued ear plugs/noise canceling headphones.

 

[Rubycon]

Do NOT trust tones through a non certified instrument to rely on your upper aural capabilities! Get an audiogram through a licensed audiologist.

Notebook speakers should be capable of producing ultrasonic frequencies. Heck the small parts on large woofers act as whizzers and get into the 15k range easy. This is why they are LPF'd because the excursion from lower frequency output will modulate the unwanted HF for starters...

Most PC sound cards are full of distortion that's easily revealed on high frequency sinus tones. In addition the natural rolloff that occurs with human hearing tempts the listener to increase the volume setting which can drive the output into clipping which is very audible and can be mistaken for hearing an effectively inaudible fundamental particularly with inexperienced listeners.

 

[Babbles]

On that site I can hear only down to 15khz. Coming from laptop speakers on a shady website. . .not so concerned about things.

 

[jjzelinski]

30 Years old and up to 20. I guess I don't have the excuse I thought I did of having to ask everyone to repeat what they tell me or why I didn't do the chores my wife asked me too

 

[Denithor]

Originally posted by: allisolm
I couldn't hear any of them and I panicked until I realized I had the speakers on my laptop muted.

Originally posted by: BoomerD
I could hear the 8K clear as a bell, could kind of hear the 10K, and the 12K was more or less just a faint noise...not really heard, more felt. After that, they annoyed my cat, but I didn't hear a thing.

:laugh:

Kinda weird. I'm 35, could hear up to 15khz perfectly clear. 16khz was there but kind of "fluttery" in the speakers. 17khz and above just fluttery, no whine at all.

Wonder if you could use this to prevent visitors at Halloween?

 

[Muse]

Something's wrong. I downloaded the 8000 hz mp3 and it sounds higher than the 10,000 hz mp3 by about a third. Anybody else get this?

I don't know WTF is going on. The tones I'm hearing sound pure but they aren't as advertized with the downloaded MP3s. Some of the higher ones sound lower. Maybe I'm hearing harmonics? I'm listening from my breakout box of my GTXP soundcard using decent headphones.

 

[rh71]

up to 17.4khz... age 31.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Do NOT trust tones through a non certified instrument to rely on your upper aural capabilities! Get an audiogram through a licensed audiologist.

Notebook speakers should be capable of producing ultrasonic frequencies. Heck the small parts on large woofers act as whizzers and get into the 15k range easy. This is why they are LPF'd because the excursion from lower frequency output will modulate the unwanted HF for starters...

Most PC sound cards are full of distortion that's easily revealed on high frequency sinus tones. In addition the natural rolloff that occurs with human hearing tempts the listener to increase the volume setting which can drive the output into clipping which is very audible and can be mistaken for hearing an effectively inaudible fundamental particularly with inexperienced listeners.

hey now...let us old bastards who can't hear shit continue to blame it on bad PC speakers...

That's my story and I'm stickin to it!

( I know it can't possibly have anything to do with the abuse my hearing has had to endure over the years...Loud rock & roll, often in headphones, loud heavy equipment...without sound-dampening ear plugs, 2 years in combat...nah...none of that could ever affect my hearing...in spite of what the audiologists have said over the years.)

 

[YoungGun21]

I could only hear up to 16khz and I'm 17 lol

 

[Squisher]

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I actually couldn't hear 14 & 15 kHz, but could hear everything above that. Maybe, that is an artifact coming from my crappy speakers.

 

[bob4432]

16K...35

surprised - when younger LOTS of shooting w/ no hearing protection, around a lot of race cars w/ open exhaust w/ no hearing protection and then worked in an industrial enviornment for a decade w/ headphones cranked to go over the sound of the machines, so ~95-100db+

and i have had tests w/ audiologists and they all come back saying i am ok, but i can't hear shit when there is other noise, so who knows.

what is interesting is that the last 2-3yrs i have been away from loud sounds and use hearing protection when needed and my hearing does seem to be getting a bit better which i thought was not a capability of our hearing setup

You fools, they're testing the population to see what kind of sounds will be effective on us!!! DON'T DO IT! AAAaaaaaaaahhhhhh

this is much better for crowd control - http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18725095.600