Hearing loss test

[trane_fanatic]

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Hearing_Loss_te...ge_164_2006.php

Everybody list their age along with a personal assessment of how you think your ears are or tell us if you have been diagnosed by a audiologist. Then let us know how you fare with the frequency test.

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I am 30 going on 31 at the end of Feb. and have tinnitus along with lots of ear wax. Use headphones for accuracy.

For the low frequencies, I can hear 20 & 50 Hz well. Not as well on 15 Hz except a faint hum and rattling.

For the high frequencies, I can hear clearly through 18000 Hz. No dice after that.

It's still better than many teenagers today if the comments on the second link are legit.

Edited January 20, 2007 by trane_fanatic

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Note to myself to try this after dinner.

MG

[David Ayers]

Hm. SACD is wasted on me then!

[rockefeller center]

Hm. SACD is wasted on me then!

Not necessarily. Think of SACD as a placebo...

[J Larsen]

I saw an audiologist recently when I was dealing with extremely loud tinnitus. She gave me a hearing test, and to my astonishment I scored perfectly through the entire frequency range tested (I think up to 12kHz).

Turns out the tinnitus had to do with allergies (I had never been told I was allergic to anything and had never heard that allergies could cause tinnitus). She gave me some pills and it went away. I wanted to marry her.

[ep1str0phy]

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/Hearing_Loss_te...ge_164_2006.php

Everybody list their age along with a personal assessment of how you think your ears are or tell us if you have been diagnosed by a audiologist. Then let us know how you fare with the frequency test.

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I am 30 going on 31 at the end of Feb. and have tinnitus along with lots of ear wax. Use headphones for accuracy.

For the low frequencies, I can hear 20 & 50 Hz well. Not as well on 15 Hz except a faint hum and rattling.

For the high frequencies, I can hear clearly through 18000 Hz. No dice after that.

It's still better than many teenagers today if the comments on the second link are legit.

My results are the roughly the same as yours (18000 Hz is already faint for me), and I just got out of college. Uh-oh...

[ep1str0phy]

Then again, I am just recovering from a pretty severe cold. So my results may not be accurate...

[RDK]

Comin' up on 45, no audiologist since grade school.

Low frequencies come in loud and clear, but 15 Hz is faint and buzzy - no surprise given my relatively cheap (non-audiophile) headphones, which simply can't reproduce 15 cycles.

I can hear the upper frequencies all the way up to 22K, but at diminished volume. Not sure if that's due to my ears or the frequency response of my 'phones. Oddly enough, 16K and 17K are quieter than 15K and 18K on up, suggesting a dip in the frequency curve of the phones (or perhaps my ears, though my wife experienced this as well.

[Guy Berger]

Weird... I get totally different results depending on whether I am listening on headphones or on my computer speaker. Either way I have trouble hearing 16K and 17K, though I hear 21K.

Guy

Edited January 21, 2007 by Guy

[J Larsen]

Either something is goofy with this test or my audiologist. She told me they only test through 12 kHz because it is normal to lose hearing above that mark relatively early in adulthood anyway. So either she is wrong, the test is goofy, the people responding to the thread are a non-representative sample, or you are, in fact, a bunch of bats.

[sidewinder]

Loud and clear at 15Hz for me, through to 13kHz at least. Not sure if my computer speakers are duff above that, my ears or a combination of both !

Not too bad for an old fart..

[ep1str0phy]

Yeah, I have a strong feeling that the quality of the headphones is having some effect on the test...

[Tom Storer]

As it happens, I just had my hearing checked recently and was told in no uncertain terms to give up the iPod. Which I have done, not without deep regret. On this test I can hear 14 KHz faintly, nothing past that.

As I was railing against fate, my wife pointed out that I've been listening to portable audio devices in one form or another since the Walkman cassette days, so it's no wonder. But it never felt like I was listening to it too loud...

Let this be a lesson to all of you iPod etc. users out there. Beware!