I’m wondering if they don’t because maybe age-related hearing loss levels off after a certain point.
That’s where I ended up too (37). I’ve had tinnitus since the age of 3, though, so I wonder when I lost 16000 and above.
Any of these tests on YouTube is bound to be broken because YouTube filters out any frequencies above 16 kHz. I can easily hear 19 kHz via tone generator but I can’t hear the 16 kHz on the linked clip.
The last one I could hear was the “under 40” sound. I’m 24. I was gonna say that maybe I have really shitty hearing but a lot of the Youtube comments have apparently-young people not being able to hear any further than I can so I’m just gonna agree that Youtube isn’t able to accurately produce the right frequencies.
On the youtube test I got “under 50,” and using an online tone generator I could hear 14kHz but not 14500.
I’m 48 and frankly surprised. Besides getting definite hearing damage at a concert when I was 21, I’ve also worked in plenty of really loud facilities. My husband’s 52 and I’ll be interested in seeing his results.
Re-tested myself on a tone generator and my ears quit past 11,500 hertz.
Well, riding a lot of subways and playing in a band full of bagpipes, followed by hanging out around loud airplane engines, probably did nothing to preserve my high tones.
I got this too, but I’m 47, so I’m apparently good for my age.
Heard the first sound at 8000. Nothing else. So I’m alive and not hearing impaired. I’m disappointed that I couldn’t hear 12000.
On the YouTube test I could easily hear the 12kHz but not the 15.
However, I wondered about the compression effects, and on a tone generator I could hear all the way up to 16kHz.
I am 34 and have spent a lot of time at race tracks and rock concerts and spent a fair amount of time with my ears ringing for a day or two after an event as a result, so it certainly could be worse.
I could just about barely hear 15000, which is under 40, and I’m a bit older than that.
And?
I know from the other thread I can just barely hear the 16hz.