How old and how deaf are you?

Nick1881 · 19 Aug 2013 at 22:10

httk said:
I found this website better than youtube:

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/hearing_test/

I'm somewhere between 14kHz and 15kHz.

My housemate can hear 17,000 Hz, which opens up a world of exciting possibilities and pranks!!

I can hear 17khz easily and just about make out 18 khz, had me worried with the video in the op.

I turned 32 yesterday.

httk · 20 Aug 2013 at 00:06

Nick1881 said:
I turned 32 yesterday.

Congratulations.

In other news, I still haven't managed to successfully annoy my housemate with this, what I need is some cheap, passive, portable speaker than will play 16kHz+. How hard can they be to find!

anything I don't mind · 20 Aug 2013 at 00:16

29 can't hear past 12k

Jegethy · 20 Aug 2013 at 01:45

I'm 23 and couldn't hear past 16000

Overslop · 20 Aug 2013 at 01:57

29 and 12,000Hz

Poor hearing runs in the family.

Lots of clubbing and listening to music at full blast with my earphones in my youth probably didn't help either!

rids57 · 20 Aug 2013 at 02:01

56 and got as far as 12khz, which was pretty clear so I tried the mosquito test and I made it to 14khz

Rroff · 20 Aug 2013 at 02:25

Diesel said:
I could hear 12,000Hz, I couldn't hear either 15 or 16,000Hz, but then I could hear both 17 and 18,000Hz.

Confusing.

I'm like that, 16-17KHz gone but I can hear above and below that.

Akagi · 20 Aug 2013 at 02:31

Video is rubbish. I have good hearing (according to proper hearing tests) but could hear barely any of those. Other tests (not on YouTube) I am also fine with. IIRC YouTube can only play sounds of up to a certain frequency anyway so is useless for this.

TehBluebear · 20 Aug 2013 at 08:51

I'm profoundly deaf anyway

Wear two hearing aids though. May give the test a go tonight for giggles!

dirtychinchilla · 20 Aug 2013 at 08:53

acme15 said:
Video is rubbish. I have good hearing (according to proper hearing tests) but could hear barely any of those. Other tests (not on YouTube) I am also fine with. IIRC YouTube can only play sounds of up to a certain frequency anyway so is useless for this.

Nope. YouTube can play all those sounds fine - other people can hear them. Make sure you use headphones. And this test doesn't indicate overall quality of your hearing, but I think the frequency gauge is probably a good one.

V4NT0M · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:26

acme15 said:
Video is rubbish. I have good hearing (according to proper hearing tests) but could hear barely any of those. Other tests (not on YouTube) I am also fine with. IIRC YouTube can only play sounds of up to a certain frequency anyway so is useless for this.

I don't understand how you can come to the conclusion you just did...

Facts:
1. Other people have said they can hear the sounds.
2. I cannot.

Conclusions:
1. The video is rubbish.
2. Youtube can't play those sounds anyway.

I guess it's some kind of group auditory hallucination.

GaiabladeX · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:46

httk said:
I found this website better than youtube:

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/hearing_test/

I'm somewhere between 14kHz and 15kHz.

My housemate can hear 17,000 Hz, which opens up a world of exciting possibilities and pranks!!

21. Can just barely hear the 1800 Hertz one!

Can't hear the last one on youtube. :eek:

snitcher · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:48

under 40

Haggisman · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:53

30 in 3 months. Could hear all (except 19k) fine on a Creative Fatality headset. The first couple REALLY hurt my ears though, and I haven't even got it very loud =S

CREATIVE!11 · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:53

I can hear up to 17000 hz, funny considering I've got tinnitus from playing guitar too loud. 25 yrs old.

Scougar · 20 Aug 2013 at 10:56

For a 2nd go, I tried on my work PC with better headphones, and am unable to hear past 16k which is odd (here upto 17 on home PC). This PC has a basic motherboard sound chipset, so I'm guessing a lot of people are not as deaf as they think they are.... test is flawed, or at least, people's machines are.

A.N.Other · 20 Aug 2013 at 11:20

Mega-cheap headphones and on a laptop probably with a rubbish soundcard. I can hear 12k easily - still relatively loud - but nothing past that. The headphones just start popping with the higher ones.

25 years old.

Redz · 20 Aug 2013 at 11:21

gregorius said:
Interesting; when I set it to 1080p I could hear all of them (in contrast to the default setting where I ran out of steam at 15KHz). However, past 15KHz the sounds started sounding lower in frequency which makes me suspect some distortion somewhere in the replay chain...

The results seemed too high to be true considering my age, quality of my sound card and headphones.

I tried a similar test on here:

http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php

It seems that what I was really hearing was aliasing until it got down to 13Khz then I was actually able to hear the tone correctly. Which seems far more realistic all thing considered.

Yaayuh! · 20 Aug 2013 at 11:23

Had hearing problems since a little child. Had several sets of grommets and about 50 hearing tests.
The latest op for perma grommets have helped a lot but when i get colds it generally leads to ear infections and the like. My hearing is all over the place then.

SeraphX · 20 Aug 2013 at 11:25

Can't hear past 12K
Age 30.