Online hearing test... Frequency

[fretmeister]

Interesting.

I got to just short of 14,000

http://onlinetonegenerator.com/hearingtest.html

[EssentialTension]

12,000 and a bit ... at age 64 and after a lifetime of loud music and loud workplace.

[Dood]

The test, I suppose is pretty meaningless if you are using listening equipment that isn't calibrated. Laptop speakers, ear buds and even some professional 'cans' do not accurately reproduce sound as it is at source and thus could have the effect of boosting or cutting those high frequencies - in fact any across the range.

[rogerstodge]

12700 age 54

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1454770540' post='2972822']
The test, I suppose is pretty meaningless if you are using listening equipment that isn't calibrated. Laptop speakers, ear buds and even some professional 'cans' do not accurately reproduce sound as it is at source and thus could have the effect of boosting or cutting those high frequencies - in fact any across the range.
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It does say: 'Please note, due to the large number of uncontrollable variables involved here, this is not a scientifically rigorous test, but a rough indicator.'

[leftybassman392]

[quote name='dood' timestamp='1454770540' post='2972822']
The test, I suppose is pretty meaningless if you are using listening equipment that isn't calibrated. Laptop speakers, ear buds and even some professional 'cans' do not accurately reproduce sound as it is at source and thus could have the effect of boosting or cutting those high frequencies - in fact any across the range.
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This. Unless carried out under controlled conditions this kind of test is, at best, a bit of fun. It is true that hearing extension goes with age and extended exposure to noisy environments, but how a 'test' like this can accurately assess that is a bit of a stretch TBH.

Didn't somebody post this a year or two ago?

Edited February 6, 2016 by leftybassman392

[Japhet]

10,000 give or take at 57. Woohoo! I'm the deafest on here so far!

[KiOgon]

9550! 65 & going downhill

2nd try - 8880 oh dear!

Edited February 6, 2016 by KiOgon

[rogerstodge]

Hard luck Japhet, Kiogon has thrashed you

[taunton-hobbit]

I took a professional test after a car smash - the audiologist reckoned the on-line stuff was not to be trusted.....

[EssentialTension]

[quote name='taunton-hobbit' timestamp='1454773746' post='2972883']
I took a professional test after a car smash - the audiologist reckoned the on-line stuff was not to be trusted.....


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Of course it can't be trusted. It even says it can't be trusted. And of course a professional audiologist says it's not to be trusted. Otherwise he or she would be out of a job.

[lurksalot]

I can hear the high pitch cat scarers that some people put across their gardens , I don't know what frequency or volume it is , but considering most of the people who put them there can't hear them I was pretty pleased with that !!

[cameltoe]

C'mon guys, we're the masters of the low end!

We don't need to worry about these toppy frequencies, we bring the thunder!

[KiOgon]

[quote name='cameltoe' timestamp='1454774890' post='2972905']
C'mon guys, we're the masters of the low end!

We don't need to worry about these toppy frequencies, we bring the thunder!
[/quote]Absofekinlutely

[leschirons]

11062 (age 64) Sounds about right as it's pretty similar in range to when my wife is telling me to finish the utility room tiling.

[Roger2611]

Quarter past three

[Dood]

[quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1454771628' post='2972844']
It does say: 'Please note, due to the large number of uncontrollable variables involved here, this is not a scientifically rigorous test, but a rough indicator.'
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I didn't see that bit. Hmmm... clever reverse psychology. It appears I don't need hearing aids, but better glasses!!!!!!!!

[Subbeh]

Just over 16,000. Dont know how with so many years playing with loud drummers and guitarists.

Edited February 6, 2016 by Subbeh

[machinehead]

Yikes! Below 8000. Age 58. The result of a lifetime working in shipbuilding.

Frank.

[James Nada]

Just under 14k which looks below average for a 39 year old.
What is interesting is that I could only hear the tone on my right ear for the last few k! Is that normal?

[fleabag]

11,500

Funny, cos when someone offers our band £50 for a gig, i cant hear a thing. We recently got a £350 gig for later in the year and i heard that fine

[Kev]

17,600, through laptop speakers, I'm 27. I'm really doubtful how accurate this test is, though.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

[quote name='lurksalot' timestamp='1454774444' post='2972895']
I can hear the high pitch cat scarers that some people put across their gardens , I don't know what frequency or volume it is , but considering most of the people who put them there can't hear them I was pretty pleased with that !!
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Me too. Of course my Dad refuses to believe me as they are supposedly beyond human hearing! I can also comfortably hear the doggie tone at the end of Sgt Pepper.
I just took the test - 17,181. I'm 34.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

This reminds me of a time we were setting up before a gig. Of course there was the inevitable piercing shriek of feedback at some point, to which we all jump and instinctively cover our ears - all except our singer who watched us bewildered. He genuinely didn't hear a thing.

The perils of not wearing earplugs at rehearsals, kids!

[cameltoe]

Somewhere just shy of 15k, through my iPhone speaker! I'm 35.