Hearing Loss??????

[speakerman39]

Phil et al,

You might find the following website interesting: http://www.freemosquitoringtone.org/

You can have it play tones at different frequencies and determine if you can hear them. It also has age guidelines for the tones.

Adam

EDIT: Make sure that your speakers can play the frequencies before you think that you are going deaf.

Wow, thanks a bunch Adam. I will try to do that today or laster this evening. Mucho gracious my friend.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[no. 5]

EDIT: Make sure that your speakers can play the frequencies before you think that you are going deaf.

And don't turn it up too high... lest you nuke your tweeters.

Alternatively, you could use headphones.

 

[jamie2112]

And don't turn it up too high... lest you nuke your tweeters.

Alternatively, you could use headphones.

That may be your best bet considering you take a hearing test with headphones on....

 

[MinusTheBear]

As long as you have no sysmptoms of tinnitus (high pitched ringing, popping, buzzing or fullness in your ears) I would not worry about any of this. It is pretty common for your hearing to degrade a little as you get older. BTW can you hear the birds chirping/singing from in your house or even when you are outside?

 

[speakerman39]

As long as you have no sysmptoms of tinnitus (high pitched ringing, popping, buzzing or fullness in your ears) I would not worry about any of this. It is pretty common for your hearing to degrade a little as you get older. BTW can you hear the birds chirping/singing from in your house or even when you are outside?

Yeah, I may be a bit too worried about my hearing. I have to say, that I am no spring chicken anymore so losing some of my hearing is just part of the aging process. Funny thing is though, my God-father used to say all the time that he could not hear. But, I learned not to wisper any secrets around him because his hearing was better than he lead everyone to believe. I call it selective hearing in that he heard what he wanted to hear. Anyways, thanks for sharing Minus.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[gus6464]

Another hearing test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G60hM1W_mk

I tried that and I heard from 30Hz to 17KHz. Is that bad?

 

[no. 5]

I tried that and I heard from 30Hz to 17KHz. Is that bad?

That's actually pretty good, or depending on your age, very good.

 

[gus6464]

That's actually pretty good, or depending on your age, very good.

Well I am only 26 but I just found this website which has a better setup than the youtube video.

http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/hearingloss.html

For some reason on that site I could hear up to the 22KHz tone but I had a very hard time hearing the 18KHz tone compared to the higher ones for some reason.

 

[mtrycrafts]

Yes I have.

When my wife yells at me all I can see is her lips moving, but I can't hear a thing.
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Probably because she is not saying anything important

 

[mtrycrafts]

Hi Adam. Yes, my installer is 28 or 29 and it was a very high pitched sound.
Phil

Any way to reproduce this sound and measure the frequency and intensity where you were standing?

 

[speakerman39]

Any way to reproduce this sound and measure the frequency and intensity where you were standing?

No not really. Any particular reason if you don't mind me asking? Just curious is all.

Cheers,

Phil

 

[Cthulhu]

If you're an older guy its fairly routine that you won;t be able to hear the top parts of the frequency range. High pitched noises from electronics are a particular culprit - I've been in quite few labs when the younger set could ear and olliscope or something whining while the professors could not.

 

[no. 5]

Well I am only 26...

Then that's pretty good.

For what it's worth, I played that YouTube video again with an RTA up, and it gets progressively more noisy and generally awful above ~3kHz with no sound above ~14kHz.

 

[jostenmeat]

Just FYI for anyone who cares, I have been told by a doctor that while its the higher frequencies that go first, its not just these frequencies at great volumes that will create damage. Low frequencies at high SPL will damage hearing, its just that the damage created will first show itself with the higher frequencies. IOW, no matter the frequency, high SPL is unhealthy.

Wear protection!

 

[mtrycrafts]

No not really. Any particular reason if you don't mind me asking? Just curious is all.

Cheers,

Phil

Yes, that would tell you what hf frequency you didn't hear and at what level was it there in the first place.
Hearing tests usually don't go beyond 8kHz unless it is a special test or something.

 

[speakerman39]

Yes, that would tell you what hf frequency you didn't hear and at what level was it there in the first place.
Hearing tests usually don't go beyond 8kHz unless it is a special test or something.

Oh I see. Well, no real way to tell what freq that sound was. Obviously, it was in the higher frequencies though. Thanks for the info.

Cheers,

Phil