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If you use computer audio and want to test your hearing heres a home hearing test of your upper frequency threshold on your actual system that will take about a minute:

 

1. download  these two mp3 frequency sweep tests and save them as "a" and "b" (right click to "save as")

 

 a = audiocheck.net_sweep20-20klog.mp3

 

 b = audiocheck.net_sweep20-20klin.mp3

 

 

 http://www.audiocheck.net/testtones_sinesweep20-20k.php

 

When checking by ear, the sound should evolve smoothly from the lowest frequency to the highest. No strong frequency dips or peaks should be present.

Please note that due to the increased sensitivity of our ears in some area of the audio spectrum, some frequency ranges - particularly in the upper medium - may be perceived louder than they actually are (the so-called Fletcher-Munson effect). For this test, don't pay attention to this phenomenon, but rather to strong and localized frequency dips or peaks. When checking by ear, use the logarithmic version, as our ears are more or less working logarithmically.

 

 

 

 

2. turn off DSP and equalisers then down the volume in your player and play " track a" adjusting the volume for moderately loud and comfortable between 1-7 seconds and then leave the volume at that setting while noting which second is the last one you can definitely still hear

 

3. Leaving the volume at the set point. play "track a"  noting the last second you can definitely hear the tone

 

4. Repeat for track b

 

5. Please fill in the Poll  (which is  anonymous)

 

 Once youve polled you can turn on your player frequency Spectrum display to work out your system-hearing cut off point.. I dont think upper frequency cut out is that important anyway. Most ears and systems can reach to 5kHz which is above the fundamental of the highest piano key:

 

Lesson-102---graph-of-freq-vs-notes.jpg

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44 years young ? hit 18 secs on A and 12~13 on B.

 

Is my hearing on the way out ? i know my eye sight is :(

 

Your results for your age are very normal.

 

Most of us who have done this home test have ears or systems that dont hear over 15kHz.

 

If you play some pure tones at say 12kHz or even 9kHz you might find like me that theirs very little musical information encoded in anything that high. So hearing loss that affects males from middle age isnt something to worry about. 

 

Its ironic that upper frequency hearing loss affects males from their middle years and its this demographic that become audiophiles and potentially obsessed about  system that do 20-20kHz flat at the stage they cant hear those extended frequencies.

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I know what you're saying. Years ago I was amazed to learn the double bass only goes down to 44Hz (IIRC)

And that sounds incredibly deep and low.

 

I'm trying not to get caught in the bigger/faster numbers trap, but a new DAC here and there cant hurt to much :)

 

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In my younger years when I longed for a good hi fi system I couldn't afford it.

 

Now in my early 50s I have what I consider a good system but my ears are on their way out.

 

I guess my 11 year old son appreciates the sound quality of my system.

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