How good are your ears?

[Derpsicle]

Interesting test on how high frequencies you can hear, post your results!
http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/
I can hear up to 19 kHz!

 

[AllanD]

19 khz here, 20 years old

 

[professorlamp]

19khz also 20

 

[Erratic]

17khz on altec lansing speakers, 21 years old.
I wonder if that would change on studio monitors...
I never really went to metal shows except 3 and always took care, hell...

 

[Derpsicle]

Interesting thought... maybe regular speakers suck at high frequencies

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

I constantly test my hearing, because I'm a bit neurotic about my ears. I can hear pretty loud and clear up to 18kHz, and somewhat up to 18.5kHz, but above that it's silence, which is not surprising at all for a 23-year-old. While the hearing in both my ears is pretty much equal, my right ear has always been a bit sensitive to loud noise and it starts kinda distorting and crackling when there's too much presence range information. It's always been like that, though, and it's actually a good indicator when mixing live. When the ear starts distorting, I'm mixing too loud

 

[Wyldechyld]

21khz, 16 years old

 

[Pinebox]

I can hear all of them, 19k being the last loud one. However, I am on a set of computer speakers, so I am wondering how much of what I hear is just harmonic distortion.

 

[jipchen]

The test is shit. It must be at a certain volume to be at least a little meainingful. And yes, with crappy speakers you will even hear 21 khz because they output a lot, just not 21 khz. I tried it with shit speakers once and the frequency got lower after like 18 khz, so...

18kHz in this test and if I crank it a little, 19 kHz. I'm 21.

 

[nialldoran]

This exact test was posted here
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/off-topic-tavern/632336-how-well-can-you-hear.html

my results still sucked as hard, could hear 16 not 17 or above, 20 yrs old

 

[JeffTD]

18kHz in this test and if I crank it a little, 19 kHz. I'm 21.

This, but I'm 20.

 

[MarkG]

On these shitty speakers my left ear gets up to 15khz and my right ear up to 17khz. The result of 5x surgery on my eardrums I'm afraid. I'm 23.

 

[setyouranchor]

15 - 16 and I'm 19. Fuck my ears

 

[nialldoran]

Fuck my ears

Thatd just make it worse

 

[setyouranchor]

Thatd just make it worse

Could it get worse? haha

I feel like my ears have failed me! Time to start taking better care of them.

 

[Ensi]

Doesn't the speakers/monitor/cans you listen on affect this? I could hear audible stuff at like 19-20khz, but it was more like "something is there" and when it ended "something is not there". Studio-cans. Just turned 19.

 

[MarkG]

Doesn't the speakers/monitor/cans you listen on affect this? I could hear audible stuff at like 19-20khz, but it was more like "something is there" and when it ended "something is not there". Studio-cans. Just turned 19.

Thats why it isn't very scientific. For it to be fair everyone would have to use the same speakers/headphones, capable of producing all the frequencies

 

[zer0_c00l]

with headphones at max I can hear until 17/18, I'm almost 20..

 

[Erratic]

And yes, with crappy speakers you will even hear 21 khz because they output a lot, just not 21 khz.

Yeah when if that is the case I hear everything fine, but I certainly don't hear above 17khz and by that I mean the specific frequencies I am supposed to hear.

 

[timislegend]

20khz ...i'm 30