How bad is your hearing?

Firstly I thought I was completely deaf, then realised headphones were plugged into the monitor and not the PC ;) lol

I am 29 and do struggle to hear people if there is any background noise or I don't know they are talking to me.

However, what I find odd is that :

can hear 8kHz-15kHz
can't hear 16kHz
Can hear 17kHz-21kHz
Can't hear 22kHz

Headphones up load though, and 17-21 is a strain to hear.
 
HA!

There I was thinking my ears are shot due to excessive use of loud headphones yet I can hear upto 21 kHz.. crank the volume up more and I can make out 22 kHz!

I'm 27.
 
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20khz

Guess I'm doing alright in that department.

Can hear 21khz with vol up to the max.
 
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AHarvey said:
Firstly I thought I was completely deaf, then realised headphones were plugged into the monitor and not the PC ;) lol

I am 29 and do struggle to hear people if there is any background noise or I don't know they are talking to me.

However, what I find odd is that :

can hear 8kHz-15kHz
can't hear 16kHz
Can hear 17kHz-21kHz
Can't hear 22kHz

Headphones up load though, and 17-21 is a strain to hear.
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I'm pretty much like you age 29 - decent headphones with medium (probably low by a lot of peoples standards) volume - I can hear 8-15kHz fine, can't hear 16 at all, 17-20 is fine, 21 only with volume right up and 22 with a bit of effort at normal volume.
 
Volume maxed + headphones and I got up to 16, nothing past that.

I'm profoundly deaf, so that's not bad at all :D
 
I can only hear the first one but if the rest were as boring as that one I'm not missing much!
 
I ignore stuff, make out im deaf a lot more.
saves a lot more time...

I only got to 15khz cant hear the next damn im old :. (or it must be my headphones, yeah thats right crap headphones!!!
 
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I can hear up to and including 18kHz with tinnitus. (26)
After that, I have my own 24/7 high frequency test playing on :(

No doubt it's filtering out or making it impossible for me to hear anything higher, amongst other things.
Such as not being able to hear 18kHz unless my headphones are near max and they are pretty crap to begin with on onboard audio, a lot of things are quiet ever since my X-fi died.
 
horseunderwater said:
This test is not realy very good it onl picks on the high pitched sounds the human voice is in the lower range of sounds
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The human ear can usually hear into the higher frequencies. Age and excessive loudness damage your ears so that your top end frequency detection deteriorates. Hence why this test deals with high pitched sounds.
 
That seems very odd, I can hear them all except 17 no matter how hard I try. The last one at 22 I find is actually clearer than 20 & 21. I'd consider myself to have very good hearing and I'm 40.

Edit: That's using decent quality headphones.
 
Just about register something at 17khz, 30 here. I'd have like to have tried this 10 years ago... If I turn the volume up I can hear up to 19 but it's VERY uncomfortable to listen to.
 
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