How good are your ears?

[abstamaria]

We talk about nuances and sound, but hearing deteriorates with age. How much can we still hear? Still in denial? Try this test:

http://mashable.com/2013/08/13/hearing-video/

Andy

[JimN]

Even with a pair of quality headphones and the bass attenuated, I didn't hear any of those sounds, from 8 kHz upward.

I could hear clicking as the "sounds" (assuming there to have been any) were switched in and out.

JN

[Maurice Pursell]

I could hear 8000, 15,000, 17,000, and 18,000 but NOT 12,000 or 16,000. I got a message up saying that you tubes compression had affected 19,000 frequency so I don't know if I would have heard it or not.

Can anyone explain why I cannot hear a couple of frequecies but can still hear some that are much higher.

By the way I am 67 years of age so I suppose I should be pleased with the results anyway.

Maurice

[alanbakewell]

I got the first two, but at 19000, Noah, my Springer Spaniel bought my slippers to me. Does that count?

Noah on Chase.jpg

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[ecca]

Tee hee

I can't hear any of them.

Oh there's the ice cream man !

[Mike Beer]

I could hear the clicking between the sounds, but nothing else! I'm 68, so in a few years I suppose I'll need some ear trumpets!

MIke

[abstamaria]

Can you hear 8000 Hz, Jim?

It would be highly unusual for people over 60 to hear beyond 12, 000 Hz, Maurice.

[JimN]

I'll check for accurate test tones on the internet.

[JimN]

I suspect that the soundtrack for the Youtube video is too compressed and restricted for those test tones to have been properly manifested.

http://mdf1.tripod.com/test-tones.html

The above-mentioned site provides reliable downloadable test tones from an oscillator. I can hear 10,000 Hz easily, but not 12,000 Hz (all I hear from that is the clicking).

Mike Beer: reassure yourself!

JN

[Mark Burton]

Agree its subject to youtube compression

Try the following proper hearing test http://www.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/your-hearing/look-after-your-hearing/check-your-hearing/take-the-check.aspx