How well can you hear

[drew_drummer]

I can just about "feel" 19khz here and on the cubase test tone generator with headphones on and also on A7's. The starting and stopping of the clips makes it a slightly unfair test I think, especially with the huge pop at the start which sets your ears up to hear something 10 x louder than what they are going to receive in the 5 brief seconds following that.

Gotta love that analog compression!

 

[Charlie E.]

I couldn't hear 17 either
I guess it's to be expected since I never used earplugs in my teens...

 

[HandsOfDespair]

19kHz, although its considerably more faint than the lower tones.

Same

 

[Brett - K A L I S I A]

Gosh this 15k made me almost cry...

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

I couldn't hear 17 either
I guess it's to be expected since I never used earplugs in my teens...

Same.

damnit.

 

[Fama]

Can get 18k at normal listening volume (headphones), 19k if I turn up a little, and up to 22k if I turn my volume all the way up.

But I guess 18k is my result. Age is 20.

 

[Ashgarth]

Got to 18khz, 19 if I turn up the volume a little.

 

[iHate]

17 was the last obvious at low volume, i turned up and could get to 19. Now my ears/head/neck HURT so much. I feel sick.

 

[professorlamp]

19k but it was very faint, plus im a puff when it comes to loud noises

 

[KeithReyn]

Everything above 16k was inaudible to me. I kept trying to see if i could hear the higher ones, now my head feels weird. :Spin:

 

[Brandon E.]

Can hear up to 18. Cracked open the tone generator and figured out that it my hearing caps out somewhere between 18.5khz and 19khz

 

[EerieVon]

16 was highest, which I guess is good considering the abuse I have put them through, and one of ear drums was once popped

 

[Pedro Teixeira]

I only even tried on laptop speakers (yes I know LOL, Im in my bed) and even with highest volume I couldnt hear 18K.. wtf? I remember doing tests and I remember I could hear quite well above 17k... I hope its these fucking bullshit speakers >_< , 15K almost made my ears bleed, jesus christ!

 

[colton]

20k. just barely though.

 

[guitarguru777]

On my KRK's i can hear up to 16

 

[TheWinterSnow]

21K motherfuckers!

I could hear 21K, but don't know if it was my speakers, the Mp3 Compression or my ears but I could't hear 22K. I have actually listened to other tests before and I seem to cut out between 21 and 22.

The reason I can hear that high? I very rarely exceed exposure to anything over 83db and I am 20 years old. If I am in a situation where the sound/noise is too loud for me to focus or makes me feel uncomfortable, I am wearing earplugs.

 

[Ermz]

I hear a fair bit higher in my left ear than my right. Leaves me worried that these perpetual issues with my right ear have left its range diminished.

I did this test on myself a few years ago and I could hear to 19kHz. Right now I can only do 17kHz, and that's only in the left ear. Weird.

It doesn't matter though, by the time you hit 30/40 most men have shit highs, and that's where most are doing their best work.

 

[Ola Englund]

cool test... shows that I have a built in lowpass filter set around 15000hz

 

[AllanD]

Got to 18k, but barely. Damn that's scary.

 

[JeffTD]

It's the absurd overuse of alcohol that makes us hear so well, not the other way around.

As in "it's the hearing so well that makes us absurdly overuse alcohol"?