High frequency hearing test

[bosshoss]

According to this test, I can only hear up to 10khz. When I was very young, I could hear up to 20khz.

Hearing Test - Can You Hear This? (noiseaddicts.com)

The good news is, who really cares about anything above 10khz?

 

[Frantic]

According to this test, I can only hear up to 10khz. When I was very young, I could hear up to 20khz.

Hearing Test - Can You Hear This? (noiseaddicts.com)

The good news is, who really cares about anything above 10khz?

or anything more than 3 chords.

 

[captain bronstain]

According to this test, I can only hear up to 10khz. When I was very young, I could hear up to 20khz.

Hearing Test - Can You Hear This? (noiseaddicts.com)

The good news is, who really cares about anything above 10khz?

 

[chas_kit]

12 khz for me.

I noticed this years ago when I ripped an audio test LP out of curiosity. Once the tones reached a certain level, I could see them on spectral graph, but heard not a thing.

 

[Jim]

According to this test, I can only hear up to 10khz. When I was very young, I could hear up to 20khz.

Hearing Test - Can You Hear This? (noiseaddicts.com)

The good news is, who really cares about anything above 10khz?

11khz for me. Good enough for everything garage. However I have a bad case of tinnitus and really miss all the highs on album cuts, Forever Changes comes to mind as a fine example that has lost its audible shine.

However it is what it is, so treble way up...

This tinnitus is so darn shit that I hear perfect mono in fake stereo sometimes.

 

[Stanco rules]

What ??

 

[Jim]

Meaning that mono sometimes sounds like fake stereo to my no good ears, comprende mi amigo?

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

Likewise 10 - but maybe that's because I have all the frequencies above 10kHz blaring constantly in my ears.

 

[bosshoss]

I have discovered a couple of things about the test. First, you have to use the on-screen sliders to turn up the volume on each test frequency, which I was not doing before. Second, the higher sounds are very, very directional. Meaning, you can hear them but only if your ear is at the exact same level as the high frequency speaker cone. I'm just using a computer screen for the sound, and the directional effect is extreme. With the proper ear alignment to the speaker, I can easily hear 12khz., and I'm sure if I had one of those Beethoven ear trumpets, I would hear even higher!

 

[Frantic]

between my dad smashing me in my ear when I was 7 and sitting in the front row of a Nazareth, UFO concert (1976) it's a wonder I can hear at all.

 

[Frantic]

I have discovered a couple of things about the test. First, you have to use the on-screen sliders to turn up the volume on each test frequency, which I was not doing before. Second, the higher sounds are very, very directional. Meaning, you can hear them but only if your ear is at the exact same level as the high frequency speaker cone. I'm just using a computer screen for the sound, and the directional effect is extreme. With the proper ear alignment to the speaker, I can easily hear 12khz., and I'm sure if I had one of those Beethoven ear trumpets, I would hear even higher!

may I suggest this stereo version

 

[Hallucalation]

I suggest using this generator, it's more reliable than test above. Press any number up to 20 000 kHz and see if you can hear it. Just hear your limit actually. (of course do that with headphones)
https://generator.simkinbh.com/

I have tinnitus in my right ear since 2016. I'm almost 30 now and it improved greatly now. I can hear up to almost 18 000 kHz on barely audible level at damaged ear (17500 more clearly).

However, i was forced to do an operation on left ear last November. Doctor cut a hole in eardrum now and it's not want to heal back. It's almost 4 months now and driving me crazy. Before operation, i did hear up to 17 000 kHz on it, but now the limit is just 13000 and ear feels horribly clogged and like under the pillow. Everyone say that my ear will be fine again once it heals but the low frequency noise (like water running inside ear) drives me crazy.

So... Anyone had perforated their eardrums? If so, will it heal back and normal hearing returns? (i.e. like what you've heard before)?

 

[Hallucalation]

I have discovered a couple of things about the test. First, you have to use the on-screen sliders to turn up the volume on each test frequency, which I was not doing before. Second, the higher sounds are very, very directional. Meaning, you can hear them but only if your ear is at the exact same level as the high frequency speaker cone. I'm just using a computer screen for the sound, and the directional effect is extreme. With the proper ear alignment to the speaker, I can easily hear 12khz., and I'm sure if I had one of those Beethoven ear trumpets, I would hear even higher!

You should do these kinds of tests on headphones only. I also not suggest to running very high frequency tones through speakers. It could easily blow twitters on it.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

So... Anyone had perforated their eardrums? If so, will it heal back and normal hearing returns? (i.e. like what you've heard before)?

Not a man-made perforation, but an exploding eardrum from the build up of pressure from blood and puss. It was actually quite a relief when it blew, as the pain was severe up to that point. As far as I could tell, it healed well, but I never did a before / after test to be sure. The doctor said some loss of hearing was inevitable.

 

[Hallucalation]

Not a man-made perforation, but an exploding eardrum from the build up of pressure from blood and puss. It was actually quite a relief when it blew, as the pain was severe up to that point. As far as I could tell, it healed well, but I never did a before / after test to be sure. The doctor said some loss of hearing was inevitable.

That's terrible. But did you noticed that your hearing in that ear became worse than before? If skin just blow up, it's nothing to worry about. But when nerve is damaged, then it's a trouble. If you didn't get any tinnitus after that - you are fine.

How much time elapsed for your ear to heal back? Did you listened music on speakers while your ear was perforated?

 

[bosshoss]

Before operation, i did hear up to 17 000 kHz on it, but now the limit is just 13000 and ear feels horribly clogged and like under the pillow. Everyone say that my ear will be fine again once it heals but the low frequency noise (like water running inside ear) drives me crazy.

I hope it heals quickly Hallucalation. I am sure it will. About 30 years ago my mother had an operation on her ear which required a small hole in the eardrum, and it took a long time but hearing returned perfectly after less than a year.

 

[Outside_Lookin_in]

That's terrible. But did you noticed that your hearing in that ear became worse than before? If skin just blow up, it's nothing to worry about. But when nerve is damaged, then it's a trouble. If you didn't get any tinnitus after that - you are fine.

How much time elapsed for your ear to heal back? Did you listened music on speakers while your ear was perforated?

I have tinnitus in that ear as I type this reply. I happened about 18 years ago, but it seemed to be back to normal within a couple of weeks.

 

[Hallucalation]

I hope it heals quickly Hallucalation. I am sure it will. About 30 years ago my mother had an operation on her ear which required a small hole in the eardrum, and it took a long time but hearing returned perfectly after less than a year.

Well, it's 4 months already! It was done with laser so that explains why so much time had passed. Good to hear about your mother!

I have tinnitus in that ear as I type this reply. I happened about 18 years ago, but it seemed to be back to normal within a couple of weeks.

You had tinnitus already before perforation or it appeared after that?

 

[Jim]

Really all horrible stories especially when music lovers are being concerned.
I got tinnitus when I was 16 years old and a "friend" of mine threw a firecracker underneath the door of the bathroom I was using. I was completely deaf for two days and after that it was all peeping in my ears that's synonymous with tinnitus.

That's why I wrote in my previous post that I hear a difference between left and right even with perfect mono recordings such as the fabulous Bunker transfers.

Nowadays my treble is way up on my stereo and the balance is adjusted to plus 10 on my left ear.

Sleeping only with the help of white noise, conversations in groups are not to understand it has to be one on one. Now that's tinnitus for you...

 

[Jim]

Only if the grass grows out of my ears will I be able to hear it grow..