What is the Highest Frequency you can Hear? 20hz - 20khz Test.

20hrz-17khz! And I'm 29
Not horribly bad for a guy who's been firing guns and screaming guitars without hearing protection for most his life!



[edit on 19-3-2010 by Prof. Skrewloose]

Far be it from me to throw more cold water on this, but...
I'm a little surprised at how even the audiophiles here aren't trashing this as much as it deserves.

Do you guys seriously believe it, when the blurb for your $50 headphones or speakers says 20-20Khz? I'll guarantee that the vast majority of respondents here have systems that would not be able to reproduce a true, pure tone beyond 16Khz. As pointed out by others, the youtube audio resolution isn't up to it, your sound card may well not be either, let alone the speakers/headphones.

The other big problem here is HARMONICS, and that may be why some of you are claiming to hear high tones that your system is almost certainly NOT capable of reproducing. Google 'harmonics' for details, but essentially it means that instead of your speakers issuing a 20Khz note, they most likely instead provide a nice mix of 5kHz and 10Khz 'harmonics'.

I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks they have tested their hearing with this is kidding themselves, and before patting yourself on the back for hearing (allegedly) 24KHz or similar, realise that the chances of any system out there being able to usefully reproduce that high a frequency are close to ZERO. You almost certainly heard 12Khz.. Same thing happens at the low end, but this time it's a doubling, not halving.. 20Hz? Nope, most likely a mix of 40, 60, 80. In reality, 20 Hz isn't something you hear, so much as feel in your guts..

I can hear from the start until 15khz. I have tinnitus though...

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They have been trashing this but not many people seem to read.

Originally posted by Frakkerface
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They have been trashing this but not many people seem to read.

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Originally posted by Gakus
heard them all up to and including 19khz.


could not hear 20khz.

[edit on 18-3-2010 by Gakus]

Nice Speakers - sorry - resistance was futile

[edit on 19-3-2010 by cushycrux]

[edit on 19-3-2010 by cushycrux]

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I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks they have tested their hearing with this is kidding themselves, and before patting yourself on the back for hearing (allegedly) 24KHz or similar, realise that the chances of any system out there being able to usefully reproduce that high a frequency are close to ZERO.

The only people claiming to hear up to 24khz are the ones claiming to be 'certified sound engineers'....

As far as I know, the vid only goes up to 20khz in any case. So , no...none of us are 'patting ourselves on the back', as you say. ( Even if the you tube vid does not reproduce that sound, no one that watched it claimed to hear up to 24khz, from the video).

I don't understand why you would want to go and 'trash' this? It's been said over and over that you tube does not produce the optimum levels that are required to hear the frequency in full. So, just give it a rest.

I'm sorry, I just don't like it when people start becoming rude and arrogant.

If you won in lottery you may wanna buy speakers for 200'000$

www.higherfi.com...

As been stated there are many variables in this test, I could here this from 40Hz through to 15Khz
now the variables can include, 1 was already stated that i saw skipping through

1. The quality of the video (compressed etc)
2. The quality of the sound card on the computer
3. The quality of the speakers especially in the high ranges running a dedicated tweeter on a crossover 14k plus and subs will also help in the lower freq's

anyone who has like me wasted thousands on a car stero in their youth will understand

Originally posted by CHRLZ
I'm sorry, but anyone who thinks they have tested their hearing with this is kidding themselves, and before patting yourself on the back for hearing (allegedly) 24KHz or similar, realise that the chances of any system out there being able to usefully reproduce that high a frequency are close to ZERO. You almost certainly heard 12Khz.. Same thing happens at the low end, but this time it's a doubling, not halving.. 20Hz? Nope, most likely a mix of 40, 60, 80. In reality, 20 Hz isn't something you hear, so much as feel in your guts..

The results I got with this have been confirmed by a professional hearing test.
I hear 20Hz clearly, what I "feel" is way lower than that.
With frequencies lower than that, I hear through my feet.

We are all different. Humanity will never all be able to wear "one size fits all" garments.

I lost it at 19khz.

I am 19 years old.

I have 80hz to 13khz then I hear nothing. When I was five, my sister jammed a q-tip into my inner ear and when I was seven, my cousin jammed a q-tip into my other ear.

Originally posted by jinx880101
The only people claiming to hear up to 24khz are the ones claiming to be 'certified sound engineers'....
As far as I know, the vid only goes up to 20khz in any case. So , no...none of us are 'patting ourselves on the back', as you say. ( Even if the you tube vid does not reproduce that sound, no one that watched it claimed to hear up to 24khz, from the video).

hhcore - "I then made all the way up to the 20 KHRZ " (no claim of 'certified sound engineers' - your words, by the way)
LeKinzDog - "could feel vibration up until 20khz" (claims to be a singer, not sound engineer)
Krypton - "I heard all the way 20hz to 19khz" (no sound engineer claim)
Mr. jack - "20hz to 19khz" (no sound engineer claim)
_R4t_ - "I can hear 16hz to 24khz" (no sound engineer claim - but I will concede on re-reading this one, it is not entirely clear s/he is making a claim about the video in question)

I stopped at page 6... I'm not criticising these folk - just telling you that if you heard something at those frequencies, especially anything over 18kHz, it was almost certainly harmonics/beating.

I don't understand why you would want to go and 'trash' this?

Because I don't like it when people get misled by false results. Two people have already verified by analysing the video, that it has no genuine tones over 18Khz. And while several knowledgeable users have mentioned the issues, many folks are clearly still thinking they are hearing pure tones and getting some sort of valid hearing test. If they subsequently get a *real* hearing test, they may be perturbed by what might appear to them to be a sudden drop of hearing ability.

You don't want to know that? Fine.

It's been said over and over that you tube does not produce the optimum levels that are required to hear the frequency in full. So, just give it a rest.

It's a public forum. When I see no further people misled, I'll give it a rest.

I'm sorry, I just don't like it when people start becoming rude and arrogant.

Thanks for apologising before the insult. I think calling me 'rude and arrogant' is jut a TAD worse than what I wrote. Would you like to quote where I made that type of insult?

I have not read this thread so this might have been posted. I just say that this test is totally bogus because this kind of test should be made with decent equipment and preparation.

Just from the fact that it is a youtube video with awful bitrate and compression that probably cuts from 16khz, or maybe even lower, makes the test invalid in every sense of the word. Also most non-professional audio equipment cannot produce any sound below say 50hz and if It can it is probably severely distorted, probably distorted up to 70-80hz, producing other tones, overtones, that you can hear, thinking that you hear the real tone presented.

But it is true that your hearing degrades pretty fast after your teen years. If you want to do this test properly then contact an audiologist, or whatever it's called in english.

/8-year audio engineer

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I'm sorry.

I may have misinterpreted the 'tone' of your statement about "patting ourselves on the back".... I myself didn't make any claims about hearing over 18khz...and many others haven't either. There are the select few that said they could hear 20khz... & I agree with you that over 18khz could be a false sense of sound.

The reason why I got upset was because I did not see anyone making claims that they could hear up to 24khz from the video, and thought that your statement was pointing at that fact.

For the most part I agree with you, & sincerely apologize for insulting you. I did mean it as a general statement. Not only directed at you specifically.

for example-

i don't see how this thread is interesting... prolly cuz i'm a certified audio engineer. at school we did a test and i could hear all the way up to 22khz

& I do feel bad for saying that so please accept my apology.

I was probably taking a bad mood & frustration towards others out on you, and that was not fair.


[edit on 23/01/2010 by jinx880101]

that was pretty cool i could hear from the start all the way to about 15 or 16 khz.

dam i have a head ache now time to let the beer do its work

[edit on 20-3-2010 by TiM3LoRd]

Originally posted by jinx880101
I'm sorry.
...
I may have misinterpreted the 'tone' of your statement about "patting ourselves on the back"....

For the most part I agree with you, & sincerely apologize for insulting you. I did mean it as a general statement. Not only directed at you specifically.

Absolutely no hard feelings - I admit my post was a little terse, so I'm sorry also.

And I'll admit to a couple of reasons why...

1. Coincidentally, on the very same day as this was posted, I visited a hearing specialist to have a hearing self-test, as I have noticed a decline in my right ear. Using very high quality equipment they have verified that I have a problem and suggested medical tests, as my left ear was about as good as it can be but the right is quite different and degraded at both the high and low ends. That type of inbalance usually indicates past damage from some event or injury (I don't think so) or any of a number of conditions, some of which aren't nice. I'm not trying to get sympathy , it's probably something simple, but the care with which the test was given left me with an impression of professionalism.

2. In my younger days (and not much less now) I was a high-fidelity fanatic. Don't laugh, but my enthusiasm was born on a day when I went to a hifi show and as I walked in, they were playing Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" on a huge (and VERY good) audio system that simply shook the entire auditorium. Sad, huh!? But to hear the low and high frequency response that I did then.. - I was hooked, and bought the best equipment I could, test records, direct-to-disc audiophile recordings, even hired a tone generator and sound level tester to see how good my system was. yes, obsessed would be a good word..

As has been related here, to get quality audio lower than about 70-100Hz, and higher than 15-16KHz, is just incredibly difficult, and usually involves a LOT of expense. Even if you have that level of gear, using a Youtube video to drive it would be an insult to the equipment!

There are a few headhones (the higher end ones from Sennheiser, Grado, Denon, Audo-Technica..), and maybe a few PC sound systems (not my area of expertise, but I do know I haven't heard many good ones at affgordable prices..) that might get to the hard bits, but seriously, I doubt if most folks who have been responding have that type of gear.

Sadly, hi-fi has been somewhat swallowed in consumerism and sub-woofers nowadays, but I would invite folks to:
- go to an audio show or two, or spend some time at a *real* hi-fi store to listen to seriously good equipment (and no, that is quite different to the loud and over-woofered stuff you might find in a place that sells big TV's...)
Then you will start to realise that when people say they are hearing 20Hz or 20Khz.. they very probably aren't.
- get their hearing tested properly, especially if they have noticed a decline, and even more so if it is just one side...

Thanks for your post, jinx - it was appreciated.

Originally posted by UsernameCory
I have 80hz to 13khz then I hear nothing. When I was five, my sister jammed a q-tip into my inner ear and when I was seven, my cousin jammed a q-tip into my other ear.

Lol.

I see a conspiracy there.

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Cool!

Listen, you might want to listen to this song....if you have a good system, it will sound absolutely awesome when you play it loud.

I'm going to post the you tube video (I know you hate those :lol, so you can decide if you like it or not. But see if you can download the original audio file. I'm not sure which site my bf got it from.

It's a bloody good track though...one of those that make you all happy and give you goose-flesh.



Enjoy, & likewise thanks for the reply!

From 20hz to...13khz - I'm 24

im 15, i hear all the way up until 19. i couldn't hear 19 or 20 sadly =(