How Good Are Your Ears? Test you audio range.

Age 19

30Hz - 22KHz

Actually I heard a sort of noise at 20Hz but wasn't sure if that was the sound from the MP3 or my speakers reaction to it!
 
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dmpoole said:
That test is utter rubbish because I can hear everything when I know I've got hearing problems.
I'm 50 and been playing in rock bands for the last 38 years.
Last night I was doing the sound for a KISS tribute band and my ears are still humming.
I know for a fact that my hearing is defective above 16khz because where I work (NHS) I had the audiologists do a test on me.
You're wasting your time with this test.
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Very true, this test is a waste of time.
 
dmpoole said:
That test is utter rubbish because I can hear everything when I know I've got hearing problems.
I'm 50 and been playing in rock bands for the last 38 years.
Last night I was doing the sound for a KISS tribute band and my ears are still humming.
I know for a fact that my hearing is defective above 16khz because where I work (NHS) I had the audiologists do a test on me.
You're wasting your time with this test.
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Yeah wasting time if your using speakers from your monitor maybe.

How come my Dad cant hear anything past 15khz. My mum can't hear nothing past 13khz. I can only hear up to 18khz. My speakers go up to 20khz so it's not a total waste of time at all.

Try it with other people and I bet you theres a difference to when you stop hearing the tones.
 
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21, 20 to 22k.

Out of bounds of the test. Next time I have a function generator and a speaker I'll let you know what I can really hear.
 
Johnnytoxic said:
Yeah wasting your time if your using speakers from your monitor maybe.

How come my Dad cant hear anything past 15khz. My mum can't hear nothing past 13khz. I can only hear up to 18khz. My speakers go up to 20khz so it's not a total waste of time at all.

Try it with other people and I bet you theres a difference to when you stop hearing the tones.
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Your mummy & daddy should be going to see the audiologists then because this taste is 100% useless.
With proper tests done at the audiologt dept at the hospital I have major trouble past 16khz but I can hear all those on the MP3.
 
dmpoole said:
Your mummy & daddy should be going to see the audiologists then because this taste is 100% useless.
With proper tests done at the audiologt dept at the hospital I have major trouble past 16khz but I can hear all those on the MP3.
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Well maybe your audiologist is wrong then and you have better hearing than you first thought.

Can you explain to me if this light hearted test is utter rubbish, how I can hear upto 18khz and when asking my parents "WHAT you can't hear that?" they respond "Nope nothing". Are everybodys speakers incapable of outputting 20khz ??? which is what many people cannot hear. The specifications of my speakers say that they can produce this range so would it be so unbelievable as to why some cannot hear these ranges?

A tone is a tone at the end of the day. It's not rocket science that requires white lab coat and an official office to make the test work.
 
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Johnnytoxic said:
My specs of my speakers say that can produce that so why would it be rubbish that some people cannot hear it?
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The specs of my PC speakers say 450 watts but somehow I don't think they are.
Last night the three band members of Hotter Than Hell were using 100 watt amps so I'm pretty sure that the specs of my 450 watt PC speakers are wrong.
 
This is a spectrum analysis of the 'so called' test MP3.
Has you can see the encoding of it has taken down the high frequencies.

spectrumanalysisoftestmp3.jpg
 
Age 22
20 Hz - 19 Khz

My speakers do 18 Hz to 20 kHz. Though to be fair my ears do need cleaning again, which results in them syringing hot water mostly down your neck :/.
 
Age 20. My tweeters reach 40Khz fact:

http://www.swanspeaker.com/product/htm/view.asp?id=16

and the connected amp has bandwidth to 145khz (-1db). I can't hear above the 17Khz tone. I seriously doubt its because my ears arn't capable, its much more likely a combination of digital artifacts, the upper limit on the soundcard, the mp3 compression, the way the PC decodes it etc.

Interestingly, I also have a tone generator on a speaker design program so thought i'd try it. Above 17khz all I hear is harmonics generated by the digital systems (low enough that anyone can hear). I expect a lot of you may be hearing these as opposed to the advertised frequency. You'll need an all analogue (or VERY well spec'd digital) signal route to do this accurately, and for the low frequencies especially good quality headphones are preferable. Also bear in mind with speakers to hear the high frequencies properly you need to be "on axis" with the cone/dome/ribbon.
 
Leaving my volume as it was and not cheating by turning it up, i got 30Hz - 9KHz :/ I'm only 18 :( speaker range is 50Hz - 20KHz which is odd how i can hear 30Hz lol
 
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MP3 uses far more aggressive compression this goes beyond sampling and actively loses some data that can be re created on replay by use of mathematical algorithms. The first stage is to get rid of frequencies that the human ear can't really hear anyway, the ear can only pick up between 20hz and 20khz, as you age the top end of the spectrum that you can actually hear drops by the age of 20 most of us can't hear over 15khz.


http://www.lordpercy.com/mp3_explained.htm
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And thats why mp3's aren't as good, music enthusiast will be adamant that the frequencies that are higher and lower than human capability, although on their own are useless, can interact with other frequencies to make a different hearing sensation.
 
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