OT: Thought would be fun to see what your hearing level is

**Altec Best** · September 25th, 2011, 06:43 AM

Came across this site that has a frequency test pulses, to test what Frequency you can hear up to.

http://www.freemosquitoringtones.org/

For me 17 khz age 45

**Todd W. White** · September 25th, 2011, 10:04 AM

Definitely 17.4 kHz, barely perceiving 18 kHz, age 51 with a sinus infection.

Of course, I'm listening through Altec Model 6's....

**Audio_by_Goodwill** · September 25th, 2011, 01:14 PM

I've done this before, and found that I could hear some of the higher tones, but not a few in the middle....... makes me wonder if I'm actually hearing some sort of secondary harmonic that my little computer speakers in my monitor are making.

**Audio_by_Goodwill** · September 25th, 2011, 01:19 PM

I can hear the 18, better than the 17.4 or 16...... 15 is where I really start hearing more. I think 10 years in a automotive factory hurt my hearing even though, I always wore ear plugs.

**DSauro** · September 25th, 2011, 02:44 PM

Well folks, through my little Gateway speakers made by you know who, at full volume from three feet, 15khz. That's it.
I thought I could hear some of the higher tones, but that was just my ringing in the ears, 'cause I kept hearing it after the tone stopped. 62 years next month, many years of live music, loud hifi, and 15 months of 24 hr artillery & helecopters in 'Nam has taken its toll. Guess I didn't need to add those tweeters after all.

**Old Guy** · September 25th, 2011, 03:09 PM

Test isn't accurate unless thru calibrated headphones...if the speaker is 6 dB down and you are -4, that's 10 total...not to mention the effect of background noise...

All this assumes even the test is accurate, so just have fun with it, don't take it too seriously...