The hearing test is odd as I should be deaf among other things as I blew out an ear drum and was in the Corps yet I can hear even the slight buzz at the end with the 20k
I wonder why
Which is why he executed all those animals, including Topsy the elephant, using alternating current. To prove that his own direct current was the safer alternative.
Both the ASCPA and various electric safety practices came out of his public demonstrations of how dangerous AC was
Pfffft I could hear all the way to the end of both but I guess that makes sense because my actual goddamned degree is in playing a trumpet as high and as loud as possible
Everthing around 4khz to 5lhz was very uncomfortable and it all kinda started to fade away into static between 7 and 9khz and at around 10khz became totally inaudible.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
damn it why can I only go up to 10k I haven't done anything to my ears but listen to music a little bit loud once in a while... I guess that's all it takes sometimes, bleh
Huh I guess my hearing is pretty normal for an old geezer huh (15~16k)
I wonder why I have so much difficulties hearing people talking to me throughout my life though
Noticing and hearing people talking to you is also a matter of auditory processing in your brain, the automatic subconscious process of recognizing that it's speech directed at you you need to pay attention to or filtering it out as unimportant background noise. I'm awful at that even setting aside my apparently lost high frequency detector hairs.
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Donovan PuppyfuckerA dagger in the dark isworth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered Userregular
Back home on my laptop I get to just about 16kHz. But honestly, given the nightclubs and concerts I went to in my teens and twenties, I’ll take it. Could be worse.
I'm gonna try it again tomorrow with my headphones instead of my desk speakers, I'm very annoyed by the idea I might be the most hearing damaged person in here and I've never even gone to any clubs or shipyards or anything.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I got to somewhere between 12 and 13k and I've seen motorhead live
my grandpa worked in a shipyard for a few years in the 1930s or 1940s and it supposedly obliterated his upper frequency range from the constant hammering and clanging of metal
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Who even needs to hear those frequencies anyway? What am I, a bat?
Who even needs to hear those frequencies anyway? What am I, a bat?
When I was making commercial robots we’d sometimes get people coming up to us at trade shows and asking if they were supposed to be making a whining noise. None of us knew what the fuck they were talking about until our 23 year old design engineer got his desk moved next to one of them and started complaining about a high pitcher buzz, turns out one of the motors had a 19kHz whine that he was the only one in the company to be able to hear.
After that we made him stand in front of all the robots for five minutes before declaring them good to ship.
I'm gonna try it again tomorrow with my headphones instead of my desk speakers, I'm very annoyed by the idea I might be the most hearing damaged person in here and I've never even gone to any clubs or shipyards or anything.
Constant moderate volume does exponentially more long-term damage to your hearing than short bursts of loud sound.
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Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
Who even needs to hear those frequencies anyway? What am I, a bat?
When I was making commercial robots we’d sometimes get people coming up to us at trade shows and asking if they were supposed to be making a whining noise. None of us knew what the fuck they were talking about until our 23 year old design engineer got his desk moved next to one of them and started complaining about a high pitcher buzz, turns out one of the motors had a 19kHz whine that he was the only one in the company to be able to hear.
After that we made him stand in front of all the robots for five minutes before declaring them good to ship.
See, having good hearing sounds like a nightmare, you're exposed to all the most annoying noises.
If you make an infinitely sized chess board, and number the squares starting at 1, and spiralling out from there
And you put a chess knight on square 1, and say it can move in any direction but make the rule that it has to move to the lowest possible number square, and it can't go the same square more than once, then it will 1) make a really pretty looking pattern and 2) get stuck on square 2084, after 2016 steps.
I find this to be inexplicably pleasing
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
Never been to a concert in my life, hate loud noises in general, only been to clubs and bars a handful of times, but I still lost it right at 13k. Maybe on something other then my phone I could hear better, but my wife could hear all the way up to 15k so I don't think it is just the speakers. Not too bad for 34 though. Plus my eye sight is fucking amazing so I will take it.
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I wonder why
Both the ASCPA and various electric safety practices came out of his public demonstrations of how dangerous AC was
13,600 or so for my left ear and around 13,900 for my left ear.
Edit: and I'm 49
On this one, I started hearing a deep, deeply unsettling runble at 27 Hz, and it crapped out right before 12,000 Hz.
Still, pretty good for an Infantryman who forgot his ear plugs on a couple of rifle ranges. And listened to Iron Maiden a lot.
Everthing around 4khz to 5lhz was very uncomfortable and it all kinda started to fade away into static between 7 and 9khz and at around 10khz became totally inaudible.
I can detect that sound is occurring all the way through, and that's with my volume on 15%, but I stop hearing sound around 17500
also I'm 34
Made it to 13000 on my laptop speakers. The silver lining to detesting nightclubs and only having seen a handful of live music gigs.
I’m experiencing the same thing: watching on an iPad it gradually fades out at 15k or so
I wonder why I have so much difficulties hearing people talking to me throughout my life though
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With my DAC and headphones, I get to ~16kHz in my left ear and ~16.5kHz in the right before it fades out completely.
At a certain point it blends with the tinnitus.
Turns out a decade of going to metal shows with no ear protection has some downsides, who knew??????
I have never been to a nightclub or a concert, but I have put on fart compilations at full volume quite a few times.
That'd be tinnitus!
When I was making commercial robots we’d sometimes get people coming up to us at trade shows and asking if they were supposed to be making a whining noise. None of us knew what the fuck they were talking about until our 23 year old design engineer got his desk moved next to one of them and started complaining about a high pitcher buzz, turns out one of the motors had a 19kHz whine that he was the only one in the company to be able to hear.
After that we made him stand in front of all the robots for five minutes before declaring them good to ship.
Constant moderate volume does exponentially more long-term damage to your hearing than short bursts of loud sound.
See, having good hearing sounds like a nightmare, you're exposed to all the most annoying noises.
If you make an infinitely sized chess board, and number the squares starting at 1, and spiralling out from there
And you put a chess knight on square 1, and say it can move in any direction but make the rule that it has to move to the lowest possible number square, and it can't go the same square more than once, then it will 1) make a really pretty looking pattern and 2) get stuck on square 2084, after 2016 steps.
I find this to be inexplicably pleasing
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Hearing pseudo-tests: about 12.5kHz for the one Tynic posted, 11.7 from Skeith's.
I think I'm in the moderately normal range for my age group.
Probably my brain too