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.
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.
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.
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.
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.