Hearing Test: How High Do Your Ears Go?

At how high of a frequency can you start hearing the noise? I scored 15,048 on speakers (not headphones, headphones are recommended).

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WARNING: Do not expose yourself to these sounds for a prolonged period of time. Headphones are recommended for this test.

15250 Hz (with earbuds), which was higher than I thought it might be, given that (a) I’m 48, and (b) I’ve suffered not-insignificant hearing loss, due in part to rock concerts. :slight_smile:

I have hearing loss in the high end of the scale.

10,700hz

Oddly, although I also have high-range hearing loss I hit 15,500. Much better than I thought. It also had to cut through the tinnitus.

13,083 for me. Worse than I would have thought.

My ears go as high as 12541 Hz. I used to be able to hear unusually high sounds for my age, but I’m losing my higher frequencies. Maybe because I’m a musician and I’ve been exposed to some loud sounds?

something’s wrong there. I come in at about 15250 Hz too, but using a tone generator app I can perceive up to about 17 kHz. What’s the sampling rate of the audio portion of that YT vid?

Nah, you can be exposed to 100 dBA for up to two hours a day safely according to OSHA’s regulations. I got my dad to put an SPL meter that we have up to my year closest to the instrument while playing an open e string as fucking loud as I can. It came out to be in the high 90’s to low 100’s. But then again, I really don’t practice much more than a half hour usually.

I am actually pretty low for my age (15). Most of my classmates can go much further.

16,000 at 50 years of age. I can still hear the calls of cedar waxwings; some older birders lose the ability to hear such high-pitched calls.

15,875 Hz, with the sound turned up. The first time, I had the sound set so that the person’s voice would be normal volume, and only got close to 13,000.

There’s some quiet hissy stuff I could hear when it said the frequency was higher than that, that kind of came and went, but I suspect that’s some kind of audio artifact bleeding down to lower frequencies.

Just over 16,000Hz here, 27 years old, male. My last audiology test came back as passing with “flying colors” as the doctor put it.

I tried downloading the program, linked from the video page, to see if I’d get the same result, but when I ran it, my sound mixer kept muting it.

Waste of time. We don’t know what the hardware speaker or headphone response is for each individual.

I used earbuds with my phone and could hear it almost as soon as the test started, which puts my 42-year-old ears with tinnitus in the 18,500 range. So, I dunno. The tinnitus is pretty high-pitched, in line with what electronics emit, and I can hear that stuff. Does that mean one day I won’t hear the tinnitus any more? Because that would be neat.

the highest my ears go is halfway up my head.

My ears go up to 11!

But on this test, I came in at 15,900.

I’m fairly sure the video test is junk. I can use an offline tone generator and clearly hear tones up to 19,500 Hz. The video jumps in at just about 16 kHz.

I don’t know exactly which compression algorithm they use, but I doubt it’s a coincidence that many encoders have a frequency cutoff of 16 kHz. In other words, the video isn’t actually playing anything above that, since the lossy compression cuts out at that point.

There is still a hissing sound all the way up, but that’s just noise and not the displayed frequency.

About 9600 is all I got. I think I’ve always been this way.

15,916 is what I got; round that for response time and figure 16K. 34 year old male.

So I guess everyone is… Over 9000?