Fast Track ultra 20-20000Hz?

Theres a place called West indian centre in Leeds that has a fantastic sound system. Subdub nights there are insane. Dub step through amazing speakers = win
 
dave-lew99 said:
At what level were you running your tests?

I can hear at 30kHz...if it's loud enough.

You have to do comparative tests not just 'can you hear it'
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Do you mean 30Hz?

30KHz is stupidly high.

Incidentally, I just did a hearing frequency test. Turns out I can hear 20kHz on my Goldring NS1000s. I thought I couldn't hear above 17kHz but it must have been the headphones I was wearing last time I tested myself.
 
Talrinys said:
I played dubstep on F1 speakers last year, was so much fun :D
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Slightly off topic but Irration Steppas were at Unity day in Leeds a couple of weeks ago. In the tent i was right next to the speaker stack, i could feel my tongue vibrating in my mouth from the bass. Great day and unity day was free
 
Uriel said:
Do you mean 30Hz?

30KHz is stupidly high.

Incidentally, I just did a hearing frequency test. Turns out I can hear 20kHz on my Goldring NS1000s. I thought I couldn't hear above 17kHz but it must have been the headphones I was wearing last time I tested myself.
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I did mean 30k but that's at well over 100dB.

Were your headphones calibrated and against what level did you use for comparison?

It needs be done properly as your ears' response will actually flatten out at higher levels due to distortion.
 
Guest2 said:
I don't see how headphones can go down to 10hz. I would think that if you played a 10hz sample and turned it up they would break.

My B&W floorstanding speakers go crazy when playing a 33hz sample, turn it up and it looks like they will break (and also the doors/walls shake a lot)

Surely the only things that have a chance of going to 10hz would be expensive sub woofers, not headphones with tiny cones
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You get much more for your money with headphones, sound quality wise it's debatable whether any speakers can offer what reference grade headphones can.
Headphones have their own purpose built environment tuned specifically to make them sound good whilst speaker performance depends on the individual room.
Headphones are also near fieldYou don't need to move as much air and neither do the vibrations have to move as far.


When i tested my hearing in physics with a signal generator could hear it below 20hz and above 20khz. But only slightly and at those extreme frequencies it was incredibly quiet and the amount of pitch change i could detect was minuscule, it had to change atleast a few 100hz at the top end for me to notice the change. Not until it got within 20hz-20khz could i really define when the pitch was changing to a reasonable level of detail.
 
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