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i can barly hear 16 or 17 maybe

That's cool. I'm good up to 20,000 Hz.

I think the loudness of your speakers can have an effect too. If I turn mine up all the way I can hear up to 25,000 Hz, very faintly.

Synergy wrote:That's cool. I'm good up to 20,000 Hz.

I think the loudness of your speakers can have an effect too. If I turn mine up all the way I can hear up to 25,000 Hz, very faintly.

That's about where I have to start turning them up too. So much for all that crap about losing my hearing later on in life due to loud music.

I don't think computer speakers + winamp are entirely accurate. I also believe ultra high/low frequencies (san sine waves) could also damage your equipment, so be careful.

i've heard the same about such things with equipment, and that certainly didn't sound too healthy on the speakers (or my ears now) but regardless, i got upto 19 before i couldn't hear it.

My volume is low however, the Miss' is sleeping.

It's mp3. Doesn't it's compression cause extremely screwed up results for a test like this?

I also believe ultra high/low frequencies (san sine waves) could also damage your equipment, so be careful.

It's digital sound, afaik extremely high/low frequencies are cut out, right?

Those tests are just simple single-frequency tones. The lowest and highest frequency is the same, but they are still in the high-end range with regards to human hearing. I'm not an expert by any means, but I do remember reading that playing high/low end frequencies can be bad for your equipment. Sine waves are different because the frequencies change quickly (like from 200hz to 10,000hz or whatever), but you've still got to be careful when playing stupid hz.

But yeah, if you really want to get an accurate reading of your hearing, see an audiologist.

plained wrote:i can barly hear 16 or 17 maybe

Same.

18 with teh headphones on up loud, damn
i must be older than I thought or was it that thumping stereo in the first car in my late teens?

S@M wrote:18 with teh headphones on up loud, damn
i must be older than I thought or was it that thumping stereo in the first car in my late teens?

I'm just about 40 and listened to music waaaaayyyyy too loud most of my life and I can hear pretty well. Had my ears checked a short while back and have excellent hearing.

well its time u acted ur age pull out the cardigan and started saying "What?" loudly anytime someone talks to you

When I turned my volume up real high I could just hear 22k, but the third time I tried I heard nothing. My normal volume allowed me to 19k, but now I've listened to that 5-10 times I can't hear it anymore either. I'm picking up 18k loud and clear all the time though. Not sure whether the not hearing it with repetition thing is normal, or if it's my sound card being so crap it plays it sometimes and not others.

I think I heard 19, sort of, 18 for certain, these speakers aren't the best so I'll try at home.

shit i dint mean to damage anybodys kit or anything

i jus seen the link and tried it on my laotop

16, 17 with the speakers turned up

Its highly dependant on your speakers too, and yeah as eraser said MP3 (which uses psychoacoustics - encoding with lower quality/cutting out the sounds that humans dont hear very much detail in) could produced biased results.

Me being a flashy git used soundforge (to play a sine at x frequency) and my studio reference speakers, and could only just hear up to 17.5kHz, and Im not a person who has gone to many gigs or who listens to music loudly (through ear killers, a.k.a in-ear headphones), but then again I've got a cold.