Here's an online test you can try.
Hearing test on-line: sensitivity, equal loudness contours and audiometry
Hearing test on-line: sensitivity, equal loudness contours and audiometry
with ear buds in a laptop..
-30 with 16k
-66 with 12k
most others -74 to -80
44yo, 10+ years working around very loud equipment, with hearing protection. It was hard to hear below -30 with 16k as it blended into the ringing that I already have.
-30 with 16k
-66 with 12k
most others -74 to -80
44yo, 10+ years working around very loud equipment, with hearing protection. It was hard to hear below -30 with 16k as it blended into the ringing that I already have.
I haven't done that test but using a signal generator and a tweeter I can hear up to 18k in my right ear. Now the left ear is a whole different and strange story. If I take a little manganiese ( caution a lot of manganiese can be toxic so I only use 10 mg ) I can hear up to about 16.5K in my left ear. But if I don't take it for a while my hearing stops at 5k ! Actually if I just ate a lot more manganiese containing foods that would probably work to.
I pulled an Audiological Evaluation from 1992 and it shows my hearing sucks.
f left rt
2000 -10 / -15
3000 -55 / -45
4000 -60 / -60
6000 -40 / -65
8000 -30 / -75
I'm sure it has not gotten better
f left rt
2000 -10 / -15
3000 -55 / -45
4000 -60 / -60
6000 -40 / -65
8000 -30 / -75
I'm sure it has not gotten better
Not much above 8KHz but I am 60, was a DJ for many years and played electric guitar for 43 years.
Interesting L vs R there Gimp - we get annual hearing tests for Workers Compensation, and the technicians note that left is usually worse than right, which they attribute to highway driving with the window down.
I have digital hearing aids, good for speech and TV, useless for music due to the delay. The problem is known and being worked on (apparently). Tone controls (treble boost) rule
chrisb, I used to wear a single headphone head set with the speaker on my right ear. My left ear was to the port (#2) Turboprop engine of the P3-A/B.
scottjoplin, I have Phonak digital hearing aids. I do not perceive such a problem with mine.
Exelia Art BTES is good but I think the last Exelia Art were actually better for music.
I get to have four profiles set up, and I insist on one without any adaptive alogrithms to interfere with the music, straight frequency compensation, no noise suppression or anything else.
They are not cheap, but I have a service connected disability for the hearing loss so I get them for free.
scottjoplin, I have Phonak digital hearing aids. I do not perceive such a problem with mine.
Exelia Art BTES is good but I think the last Exelia Art were actually better for music.
I get to have four profiles set up, and I insist on one without any adaptive alogrithms to interfere with the music, straight frequency compensation, no noise suppression or anything else.
They are not cheap, but I have a service connected disability for the hearing loss so I get them for free.
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I should feel blessed, I thought my hearing was bad having been in the military.
It appears that in comparison it's not as bad as I believed it was.
I have some loss but it's more of a nuisance than anything else
I just to turn it up a little to hear it clearer.
It appears that in comparison it's not as bad as I believed it was.
I have some loss but it's more of a nuisance than anything else
I just to turn it up a little to hear it clearer.
I hear to about 19khz,no tinnitus but some hiss.However I sometimes have serious trouble understanding what people say,don't know why,maybe you can help me out.
I believe that comes from not hearing a particular frequency well.
I knew an engineer who had hearing loss at 1000hz
(probably due to constantly hearing that test tome all the time).
Hiss is a form of tinnitus. Is it certain people's speech you have difficulty with? Is it when you are tired?
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