How high can you hear?

[ericl]

Check out this website, it contains audio samples from 10-25khz. I can't hear anything past 16khz. Pretty cool.

http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63

[audio_dude]

I can hear to about 19khz

awesome site

[emorphien]

I can hear 19 but its not terribly loud. Could be rolloff on the speakers, amp, sound card or who knows what else. I'm not going to plug in my good headphones just to find out.

[audio_dude]

i think the average person hears about 18htz, sometimes 19...probably not the roll-off on speakers...(well, that my opinion)

[superpanavision70mm]

I heard it up to about 18 and a fraction of 19.

[PAT.P]

Why does it show broken clip picture from 21 to 25?I was up to 20khz with no problem than broken clip .

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I played this through my hometheater speaker system and I could plainly hear 19khz and had pressure to my ears up to 21khz. Man did this give me a headache, time for beer!

[kexodusc]

wholly crap - I can hear up to 21KHz...
when I get my hearing tested, it's lower, somewhere around 18 KHz or something where I lose sensitivity.

[superpanavision70mm]

I guess I should try it out through my system instead of my laptop speakers.

[Feanor]

Check out this website, it contains audio samples from 10-25khz. I can't hear anything past 16khz. Pretty cool.

http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63

I used the Radio Shack SPL meter corrected tones on the Rives test CD @ 80dB. I could clearly hear a 10kHz tone but not the 12kHz or higher tones. Of course, I'm pretty old at 61 years. I still enjoy the music though.

However it does open the question of whether my opinions of high-frequency performance -- noise, grit, grain, etc. -- would be worth anything. In any case, I never offer any without a disclaimer.

[superpanavision70mm]

Ok, so I decided to re-listen through my system and I was still hearing some sort of sound in the 20+ category, but it wasn't like a high pitch frequency like with the others, it was more of a 'noise' type thing. Anyone else know that?

[robin_v]

I could just about hear 23kHz but that's probably because of the frequency response of the cans I have on the PC.
I do have unusually high frequency sensitivity and can hear bats, for instance.

Did anyone else experience a kind of tinnitus after listening to those tones?

[slbenz]

I surprised myself to be able to hear to 22kHz. I guess not listening to my stereo/home theater system too loudly helped over the years.

Slbenz

[emack27]

Wow! Did you know that women generally have a higher sensitivity to higher frequency ranges than men? And that the dynamic range of human hearing is 120dB!

[Mr_Speedy]

Wow! Did you know that women generally have a higher sensitivity to higher frequency ranges than men?

Men have probably learned to filter out high pitch nagging that comes from women

[jlcct]

Thank You,

I liked that a lot.

Sincerely,
Jeff's Dog

[r m]

I could hear 22 but not 23.

Thanks for the great link.

[Grandpaw]

I guess my hearing is shot..... 12Hz was it!!!! What did you just say? Jeff

[givendale]

I hear up to 23,000 Hz an I have had tinitus for about the last 15 years. It makes me wonder what frequency the souonds in my ears are.

I did have the PC speakers turned all the way up though but I suppose if you can hear it,you can hear it.

[superpanavision70mm]

Ok, so here is a perfect place to ask this question....

Can anyone else hear TV's? Ok, let me somehow rephrase the question....

Occassionally in my life I have accidentally left my TV monitor on or other monitors on and I can immediately tell when I enter into a house that there is a monitor on...without the monitor even making sound...no static, no fuzz, just a really high pitch that NO ONE else seems to be able to hear. I know this because I have asked others, "can't you hear that really high pitch?" Everyone thinks that I am crazy.....anyone else have this ability?

To test it out....turn ON your TV, but without a signal going to it.....so that it's just ON, without any static...for example if you have your DVD player shut off and the TV is not receiving an image...now go out of that room and a few rooms away.....are you able to tell if the TV is on without knowing?

[nightflier]

Something else to think about: just because we aren't hearing things consciously after a certain level, does not mean we are not perceiving it. Moreover, there is the possibility that sound at lower frequencies "enhances" sounds at higher frequencies that we cannot consciously hear. This is why using test tones as opposed to actual music will yield different results.

By the way, using good headphones allowed me to hear higher frequencies than through my speakers, probably because of ambient noise. I also had to go back and read the specs on some of these headphones because the cheapy ones didn't go higher than 16-18 KHz.

[Mark_IDT]

I can hear tv tubes when there turned on. Of course this only happens when there is no other sound present and that usually means the tv is on an input channel with no signal. I can remember coming home when I was younger and as soon as I walked in I could hear an annoying very faint sound. When I walked up stairs I found the tv on with no picture and when I shut it off the sound went away. Thats when I realized I could hear tv tubes. We can't be the only ones but we may be among the few.
I must say among all my friends I have the pickiest ears it seems. Alot of them play music also so they will ask me how they sounded after a set and I never say great. It usually is too loud for the size room there in but try telling them that. One of them always says they can't hear there stack and need to hear themselves playing and thus turns his amp way up till the clip light is on almost solid. I just shake my head and walk away. Another example is one of my friends makes cds from his collection which is all mp3 files on his computer. He has the cd's but listens to all them from his computer anyway so he just riped them all into mp3's. Well when he makes a copy for someone he justs pulls up the mp3 files and makes a music cd. Well this turns them back into wav files and makes the highs sound like one ringing tone. It becomes very apparent on my paradigm's and I've gotten my other friends to hear the difference on my stereo but in a car the same friends can't tell the difference. I can pick out one of his cd's immediatly on any stereo and it bothers my ears so much I have to turn it off or leave the room if someone insists it keeps playing.

[thekid]

Ericl-Thanks for the link! I'll give it a shot once the Hendrixx blaring from daughters room quiets down.

During a physical years ago I went off the charts on the high end but from a musical prospective you have to question the usefulness at a certain point.

Because I can hear a mosquito buzz-do I really need to??? Its useful if I were a frog but not when listening to Mozart and others .... (Flight of the Bumble Bee the one exception.....

[Dusty Chalk]

I think it'd be more interesting if they played full-frequency content of some sort, and played with the filter cutoff. It is my belief that even if we can't actually hear those frequencies directly, it still will effect the overall sound in a way that we can hear.

I used to be able to hear TVs, but now not so much.

[Kaboom]

yes, i can hear TVs, and it drives me crazy. that's just one good reason to buy flat-screens from now on...