Hearing Test Survey

Astral Fridge Magnet · Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:06 pm

Hello,

Long time no see, though I regularly visit these pages but just don't post much.

Anyway, I am kind of curious about something. We live in my opinion a noisy world and exposed to loads of potential for hearing loss. I hate people for example slamming doors and I can't stand it when trucks, scooters and ambulances with their sirens blaring are in traffic. I tried an online hearing test. This one:

http://www.freehearingtest.com/test.shtml

I discovered that I couldn't hear the 8 KHz tone. I don't know if I should be worried because it seems to me that only bats and dogs could hear that one. Can anyone else here hear it?

husker · Post by **husker** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:29 pm

I can hear the 8KHz tone just fine through my laptop speakers (what are you using to listen?). That seems quite a low frequency to not hear...most people can hear beyond 12KHz I would have thought, and kids beyond 16KHz.

My ears are 39 years old and taken a bit of a battering, so if your not hearing the 8KHz tone you might want to think about getting a proper test done and see if there is anything that can help.

Cheers, Wayne.

Astral Fridge Magnet · Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:36 pm

husker wrote:I can hear the 8KHz tone just fine through my laptop speakers (what are you using to listen?). That seems quite a low frequency to not hear...most people can hear beyond 12KHz I would have thought, and kids beyond 16KHz.

My ears are 39 years old and taken a bit of a battering, so if your not hearing the 8KHz tone you might want to think about getting a proper test done and see if there is anything that can help.

Cheers, Wayne.

I am using crappy old cheapo headphones but at a volume that is barely audible as the test suggested with the test tone. So I have the test tone at a volume I can barely hear then listen to the rest. The 8KHz I couldn't make out. It is very high pitched and obviously too high for me to hear at the conditions I set myself. Did you have the test volume at barely audible? If I set it on a higher volume I hear it, but as I said it is very high pitched.

Post by **garyb** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 7:45 pm

i can hear it.

Post by **hubird** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 9:05 pm

8 kHz is alarming low!

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:04 am

I'd be a little worried. It may be a good reason to get a checkup, just to be sure it's nothing serious.

Astral Fridge Magnet · Sat Apr 28, 2007 6:36 am

Thankfully, I could hear it quite easily with better quality headphones. I was starting to panic. The headphones I used before were crap and probably shouldn't be used for that kind of test, though my missus could hear it with the crappy phones whereas I couldn't.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:10 am

If the headphones are not linear frequency vice, then any given frequency can be harder or mroe difficult to hear.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:31 pm

yeah - there might be a 'response-valley' right at 8khz

when I was younger I occasionally made the 'ultimate' quick hearing check in the hifi departement with some cheapo fm radio - 'cheapo' was important, as those didn't suppress the 19khz auxiliary signal from the fm transmission... it was clearly audible, but it's a very unpleasant tone

(today that test would probably be pointless for me...)

cheers, Tom

Post by **hubird** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:49 pm

hm, there is a plug that produces test signals...was it Optimaster? must be another plug yet, dunno.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:11 pm

ControlRoom in the mixer folder

Post by **hubird** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:43 am

hey thanks Immanuel...almost never use that thing, so I forgot