In my 20’s I could hear 18 kHz so well they audiologist asked if I was cheating. Decades later I top out around 10.5 kHz. I’m a musician and am now diligent about hearing protection as I don’t want to risk losing more.
In my teens, I could hear beyond 20kHz. It was annoying since 20kHz noises are constantly played in public spaces (e.g. airports, malls) very loudly, so it was never a pleasant experience visiting these places. At 24, I already can't hear anything higher than 16kHz. This is scary... I didn't even know my hearing loss was this bad already at such a young age.
32 and can hear up to 17.5k which is wild to me but I thank God I didn't blow my eardrums out when I was younger to be able to hear as well as I do now.
I capped out at a 2-3-count before 16,000. It was odd, until it hit 8,000 I had to keep lowering the sound until I was down to level 2, then between 8&10 I had to start raising the volume though not by much. Then everything blanked out at a 3-count before 16,000. So I retried it and raised the volume to the very highest level as it began to fade out, got perhaps an extra .5-1 second count before it blanked out again. 38 years old - female.
I am under 18 and I could hear 20 kHz. My science teacher plays 20 kHz to get my class to be quiet and she can’t hear it even though it bothers us so much we immediately stop talking. Some people complain about how annoying the sound is and others just hush up (this teacher is a great teacher and we all love her as a teacher❤).
@@p0358for short bursts it shouldn't do any damage. It's much similar to a dog whistle. In fact dog whistles use similar frequency to what this video used at the higher spectrum, between 10000 and 20000.
Hello, thank you. I am a lifelong sufferer of Tinnitus and Tones felt in my brain and my ears. I am 63. Pain hit at 2000 HZ up to 4000HZ then passed. I stopped hearing the tones below 16000. As I sit here now typing with earphones still on, Pitch is very high and non stop hum is louder. I have been to ENT, says I am alright. I also saw my Nuerologist about it. They keep telling me to see the other🙃. Thank you again.🦋
Similar for me. I have Tinnitus in my left ear and the tinnitus and tone matched up in the 8,000s. I then noticed that the sound, which had been louder in the left ear seemed to move into my right ear and I could hear, but very quietly, in the right ear to about 9,500. I am 65 years old.
Ever since I experienced a NDE I have had "tinnitus" or something like it. I am 47 in 2 wks, and I can hear up 14k as well. I attribute the loss of the upper frequencies to listening to music WAY too loud my entire life (but that's not likely to change)
I just tried this on me and my husband. Now I now why he never mentioned anything about the awful loud squeaky sound that our car brake makes that I’ve been complaining about!
i'm 52 suffer with tinnitus that's is getting progressively worse over time i topped out at 5.5k i go pick up my hearing aids on this coming Wednesday i'm nervous and excited ... i've been fighting breast cancer now two years i think the tinnitus is a result from the chemotherapy but hey at the moment at lest i'm breathing in and breathing out
43 year old guitarist, mostly protected my ears since I was 18. Gigs are not as loud as they used to be and I have much less tolerance than I used to. Started to get quiet at 14.5k and went silent at 15k. That was with headphones and mobile phone speakers. Feel lucky. I hope science can fix this stuff eventually!
I am 48 and mine went slience around 14-14.5k. I have been pretty careful but I did attend a lot of loud nightclubs in my 20s. I think I started to notice this difference around 10 years ago maybe. I didn't do any online tests until like a year ago. I was surprised I don't hear above 14.5k I thought I had "perfect" hearing :(
I’m 58, and I could hear up around the 13k-14k mark. Interestingly enough, I tried turning up the volume way up once I could no longer hear, and I felt a strange sensation in my head, sort of some kind of pressure. So it’s not that my ears can no longer sense the higher frequencies, something else is going on…. 🤔
Practically deaf in right ear 72 years old. Lost my right eardrum at 5 years old. Ent made an eardrum out of a blood vessel in the bend of the arm. Still a 10% hole. I could hear up to 8000 but that was without ear buds or headphones. I had iPad max volume.
I am 70 years old. I listened on different speakers to help verify the drop off was at the same point. I lost it at 8K. It was consistent with cheap BT speaker, quality headphones and through my stereo set up. I wonder if working in loud manufacturing environments through my 20's had an impact. I worked in a stamping plant for many years.
I think headphones would be a more proper test. High frequencies also get absorbed by the atmosphere faster than lower. That’s why bass can travel log distances.
I have my volume as low as possible and felt incredible discomfort right as the sound started. I'm 59, female, and the frequency immediately makes me feel like I am going to throw up. It also makes me start sweating and feel confused. I do suffer from migraines and have to avoid certain visual triggers, but as my eyesight has started to get worse, it seems like I am much more sensitive to sound. I had my finger on the volume control and had to stop right away.
I am 64 yo. The (sharp and well defined) rolloff from a subdued whiny tone to complete white noise occurred at around13KHz, using standard iPhone earbuds plugged into a PC. This is consistent with my test results at several other sites as well. That said, in practice I have difficulty with engaging in comfortable conversations while sitting in noisier restaurants/bars - the sort of places that my children take me to.
I am 61, and I have high frequency loss in both ears. I took your test, and I could only hear up to the 2000 mark. Yes, I do wear Phonak M-R30 hearing aids. I feel they are working. Is there a test when wearing the hearing aids to see how well you hear with them on?
I have suffered from tinnitus for the last two years. A constant high pitched ringing. I can hear all the way from 20 to 18000hz. How good must my hearing have been before the tinnitus? Or maybe there is another reason for the ringing in my ears?
Very interesting and informative test. I'm 72, and here's what I found: When I set the volume to about 50%, I experienced some fluctuations in volume, and the sound dropped out completely somewhere between 1000 and 2000 Hz. It then came back and dropped out completely again just before 8000 Hz. When I set the volume to 75%, I experienced some fluctuations in volume, but was still able to hear everything until just about 8000 Hz. When I set the volume to 100%, I again experienced some fluctuations in volume, but was still able to hear everything until just over 8000 Hz. I had a hearing test a couple of months ago, but this little experiment gave me a whole lot more insight than the results of that test. Thank you for doing this, Matthew.
I also heard an audio fluctuation listening to the tone on my laptop speakers and then through my Wonderboom Bluetooth speaker. I then listened with my headphones and the fluctuations disappeared. I think but do not know for sure that the fluctuations were caused by the echo off of nearby walls and windows. I had complete loss at 8k.
Most audio products respond to frequencies differently too. Some headphones have peaks and dips (for example, one headphone might play a 10000khz sound a lot louder than another)
at one time, while early 20's i could hear 22k. Now at 72, i lost it at abouto 3,000, then back in at 3500 and up to 5000 and it stopped suddenly. I play horn and have a very hard time hearing speakers, conductors, and others in a room or class setting. My research is that this has more to do with brain function than ear function. That is the causes are brain related - stress, worry, pressure, lifestyle, health, physical shape, etc. GEt that in order and the hearing will improve. Apparenly hynotherapy will also work in sotme cases. Interesting stuff . . . .
I'm 54 and could hear up to around 8.000 Hz. My hearing is better in my left ear than in my right and I have tinnitus on the right too. I'm seeing an audiologist next month.
With my headphones in all the way up i can hear until it stops.. the painful part of the sound is just prior to the threshold. I find that very interesting. When i was in highschool psychology we were doing a testing of the senses and when we were on hearing the teacher had everyone lay their heads down and raise their hand when they heard the frequency played. I was the only one accurately responding to the extremely high pitched frequencies by the end of it. I am 25 now. My vision is quite exceptional as well ..
50 years old and started to lose it at 10k but completely gone at 12k. I was surprised at how high 2kHz sounded! I would have thought it was low voice territory
I am 64 and got to around 14k (just listening to laptop sound, no headphones) I think that is pretty good? I have been a DJ/Radio presenter so I don't think I have done too badly.
I'm 31 and with cheap bass boosted earphones I can easily (most of the time painfully) hear everything up to 16,000, but I do have very abnormal progressive low frequency hearing loss while my high frequencies go so high my previous audiologist ran out of high beeps 😂 Couldn't hear the starting range at all! Hope I get my hearing aids soon.
About 12.3 kHz. Very abrupt cutoff - gone at 13K. I'm male, 67 years old. Last time I tested was maybe 5 or 10 years ago and it was about 13K. So haven't lost much. Feeling happy today ;-) Note: If I stay at low volume, of course, I crap out lower - around 10 kHz. But I figure it should be fair to turn up the volume 20 dB or so - so I did. FWIW, I don't go to concerts or football games, etc without some hearing protection. However, I'm not fanatitical about it. Don't use any while mowing grass and I do use earbuds at maybe around 100 dB sometimes since I have always liked loud I(but not excessive) volume when listening to some music - to be able to hear the full sound stage. But after one concert in my youth where my ears rang for a half hour, I figured those levels were not good for me - so I never did that again ! ;-) Nice RUclips video. Thanks for providing this !
Im 55 and could hear to 8000, I have trouble hearing someone when there is back ground noise or in crowds. I have tinnitus, a constant high pitch sound 24/7. Thinking about trying a OTC device, any recommendations?
I wanna say my phone cuts out at 16,000 hz because i can hear and then it cuts out, but it does not cut out smoothly. I can still hear the 16000 hz pretty easily and it cuts out. Maybe i can’t hear past 16,000 but i think it may be my earbuds haha.
I’m 49 and I was able to hear up to about 15,000. The rest after that, I wasn’t sure if I was hearing it, or if it was my tinnitus messing with it. After 15,000 it seemed like a soft distant sound wavering up and down a little. I was diagnosed with tinnitus in January 2020 after having Flu Type A and Covid, so hopefully this range is still pretty good considering.
Am 64. Got tinnitus about 5 years ago. Apparently my hearing loss is inherited. Have now lost 50% according to the ENT who I visited last week. The highest sound I can hear is 8173.66. After that I hear zero!
10,500 in left ear. Right ear dropped out around 9,000. I am 67 years old and have significant tinnitus in both ears, but the right ear is worse than the left.
All of them, with one earphone side working, the last one like ridiculous sound, I heard everything!!!! Dude you tryna kill me lol, I can still hear them after stopping the video LOL
I must take pretty good care of my hearing. I'm 37 and could still hear the 16,000 on my phone without headphones while outside with noisy traffic and loud cicadas right by me.
I'm 45 and have tinnitus and could barely make out 15.5k and it was silent around 16k. I do remember when 18k was the upper limit of my hearing. Probably doesn't help that I went to a concert last week.
77 years old and it drops off a little over 8k. Back in the late 60s our speakers/headphones might have been the limit but I could hear the upper teens without trouble. Never liked extreme volume though.
What is true about the frequency in a hearing test? 1) Frequency affects the "pitch" 2) Frequency affects the "loudness" 3) Frequency is measured in decibel units 4) Frequency can also be a negative number
I have a question about this experiment. I know that you suggested to adjust our headphones so that things aren't too loud throughout the experiment, but are we supposed to keep our headphone volume at the same level the whole way through to do the experiment? I kept mine at about half volume throughout and stopped hearing things at around 14k maybe but then I did it again and found that if I increase the volume at about 14k, I could hear all the way to 20k. so I am not sure what that means for my hearing.... did I cheat?
I'm 47 and with headphones on, but with traffic still being heard outside my apartment, I seem to top off around 12,500 Hz. In the bathroom, with the a/c turned off and headphones, I seem to be able to hear up to 13,289 and maybe higher, but not sure.
I could hear to about 16000hz on a lowish volume on my laptop without headphones. Couple of drops in the 1000hz to 3000hz range. Not too bad for 31 i think? Still not managed to match my tinnitus tone though.
I hear all the way to the end but it becomes more wave-like and fluctuates/vibrates (interference pattern?) in the higher frequencies. I can also hear the whole spectrum of frequency pulsing back and forth and diminishing in frequency minutes after the video.
Hit space to stop as soon as it got silent, 16k and some, pretty good I think, but I've noted that each side of mine hear some frequencies better, as my right hearing can't hear a pitch around the 600hz there, but the left one can clearly.
Sad. 45 and have protected my ears my whole life but tinnitus started in both ears suddenly a few years ago. Other neurological symptoms started then too, so I don't think it is related to overexposure. Now the dropoff starts at 8k and pitch above that is buried in the constant ringing of the tinnitus. As a musician and recording and mixing enthusiast it's not ideal.
Should How can u tell what you were at near the end ...the numbers were tiny at the bottom and the large pop up numbers had a huge span between them???
I'm 65 and could hear a scratching/squelching type sound at 14K, but I had turned the volume way up as I got over 10K. Is it still valid if you turn the volume way up?
Got to 15,000 nothing after that. I do have very good hearing in general. I can usually pick up very high tones or low hums even out in the street. We have a street light about 50mtrs from my house, which sometimes emits very high frequencies which plays havoc with my ears. No one else in my house can hear it and they all think I’m going crazy. 😂
People think I'm crazy when I tell them to change the old television because of the high pitched ringing it makes.. had to record with a studio mic connected to an audio interface going into my laptop and then analyzing it with a vst audio analyzer just to show them there's a peaking noise at 18khz.. 😭
I am a 19 years old musician, I always enjoyed high-end in music and I mix it myself, spending more time mixing high frequencies than low frequencies. When I was 16, I tested my ears and could hear up to 22.5khz. I did it again yesterday and I could barely hear 21 ish khz. I'm very worried.. my favorite frequencies in music are the ones above 18khz because I listen to glitchy music with precise high-end and I already cannot stand to listen to it when compressed at 320kbps because it isn't as precise in terms of sound quality.. I'm scared, really.. 😢
science will fix it for you in 5 to 10 years. Im the same as you and really pissed off I can only hear to 14.4 Khz now (age 53), since I am a music producer
@@stevea8099 It's honnestly, to me, not really something science could fix. Not necessarily more than a simple equalizer though, that's what I mean. If you hear frequencies less with age-related earing loss, which is the case here, it means the """string cells""" (I'm not a native English speaker, my apologies 😂) in your ears that are supposed to hear them are less present and/or damaged (not really, but in the big lines that's pretty much it) and if you turn up the volume, you technically can hear them again, I can increase the volume of my audio interface and generate a continuous sound at 25khz and hear it. The only difference is that it will sound like a pressure and not a sound. The higher the frequency, the more it will sound like "ear pressure" instead of sound. I'm sure you already boosted 17+khz to make a voice sound "fuller", to make it enter the ear, making it more centered. I can hear bats and rats, I live in the countryside and it's really ear tickling, but they're loud to me because they were close to my window. Thing is, that's why I heard them. The higher the frequency, the less volume you need to have in order to hear it, but after 15khz it stabilizes itself more and then it goes down again in volume so then you'll need more volume to hear above it. I might make no sense, but basically, you can hear them, but they will tickle your ear in a different way than they did before, when they were sounds, and you'll notice them as "pressure" and not as a note anymore, at least when talking about generated frequencies. Getting there to my second point, variations are still gonna be heard. A general ringing frequency might not appear as a sound anymore and your brain will not calculate it anymore and you might get the feeling of tickly pressure inside the ear instead of a note but when listening to hi-fi music it'll still be usually better to have all the upper frequencies. Sounds, when they're not staticly ringing or auto generated, are usually perceptible no matter where your ears roll off during a hearing test. Therefore, listening to my favorite album "hypochondriac" by Brakence (I recommend, especially the 3 lasts songs) is always a pleasure because I can identify the glitchy high end (he uses glitched sped up drums/hats/ticks/whatever in stereo and it tickles the ear when listening to his music which feels amazing). To know if you're not capable at all of hearing some frequencies, put a random song in your daw and boost everything above 16khz by some crazy number. Even without aliasing you'll hear the difference and therefore it doesn't really means that it's not fixable. I just am scared of having to boost the volume of the high end to mix the frequencies I like, because it would feel kind of.. bad. And I dislike hearing 18khz that I now identify as a "pressure on the ears" although before it was a sound that I could tell the pitch of. Btw, don't generate a 25khz sound before putting the volume of your speakers to max just in order to hear them, I had pain for hours and it felt like someone stabbed my ears with a sewing needle 😭
I'm 35 and could hear up to 14.5k approx when i turn the sound to the max. Hearing test said i have mid lvl high frequency hearing loss. Is 14.5k very bad or?
18 year old music production student. Lost it very suddenly at 16k. Like loud and clear until that point. I am certain I could hear higher though so think either RUclips or my headphones were compressing it.
My right ear capped at 16.5k but my left ear can hear a bit more and possibly to 20k hz but it could all be in my brain. The thing is I have this weird high frequency ringing in my ear that makes it hard to discern anything after 16.5k but it’s only in my right ear.
it gets very slight at about 13 i can still hear something at 14 but its very hard. Is it not very slight? its only slight for me? Im not sure, because I asked someone else if they could heard anything audible past 13 and they said no, then i asked a teenager, and he said no. Are you all sure you're hearing something past 14, and not imagining that you are hearing something?
It was difficult to tell. Because you only put frequencies up at certain levels and they were VERY infrequent. Can you please do another one where every say 500hz is on screen rather than every 4,000? It would be a much more accurate test. As I am really interested as I suffer with Tinnitus and Diplacusis and ha ve done for years. Also I am 75% deaf in my left ear. Thank you.
16,000Hz, 34M though I did throw a firecracker down a pipe in the ground as a kid and became deaf for a few seconds. Not sure how much that could have affected my hearing
I am an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person). I just moved due to the noise hear. No mufflers, children screaming, and upstairs neighbors sounding like they are marching in combat boots. "Bump, bump, bump, bump" Always four steps. Over and over again, all hours. I got to 8,000 on the test, which I find weird. I literally moved to a house in 115 acres, where there is absolutely no woune. I have ADHD, and these distractions made it impossible for me to accomplish anything. I would play ocean wavers on my speakers at full volume for "white noise" and then have my TV up to 100 volume just to cover "rush hour" . Just started researching it. I also find that I have always have been able to remember all the lyrics in songs from the 1940's through at least 2000. Thanks for the video!
Im 31 and anything 14k hz i cant hear a thing i have been for a hearing test today and the audiologist said my hearing even though most of it is in the normal range is sitting much lower for someone my age and i have mild hearing loss in my left ear
@@voodooaaWhen would you want to hear above 14k? That is an unpleasant sound IMO. Doctor is giving you bad advice if recommended hearing aids for 14k in your 30s
it seemed like 14k hrtz, it dived or extremely fast, but there is amplifcation and othe rmeans to sound itself to being able to hear it... and you also need speakers that can occiliate the magnet correctly.. I tried again and put it on loop... and waited, since I can listen to my tv at the lowest volume lat at night when I attune my ears I guess... So...easily died off... cranked the voluem up and the die off was 15k, then it died off and was really concentrating... then I clicked over and around 15k and 20k stop to see if i could hear anything nothing, but kept clikcing around.. and when I click on teh 17.5k I could hear the tone after repeatedly clicking and it would fade... then suddenly it didn't fade and I thought it was magic.. I would state my normal hearing range for the life i live is around 14k hertz.. and I have an undetermined range... that is attainable.. I mean the physics of the sensory system is locked to the sensory collection system if its not damaged, then whatever its high limit is set, howeve,r something that scares people is what is the loudest sound your brian can auditorially produce inside ones head, so this would be your brain, with direct input by passing the sensor load of the ear and directly the sound reconstructor... no one could answer what the loudest sound can be produced in the mind of a person that goes for all senses... which knowing about oci[pital manipuation for hte viewing field begs teh question.. of brain hacking for input delivery systems... the loudest sound is probably not produced in the universe but in the mind of the person. That was my experience with this... definately 14k was easy, and it died off... 15k with every and volume maxed easily... and 17.5k when clikcing around and after a time of being super quiet and waiting and concentrating..... could i go higher I don't know... tests are not hte best tests as its typicalyl all test are a interelation to the context at hand.. and not hte to9tality of hte system. WIthout any ear damage, we the nahve genetic physical properties we can gauge, like the little fibres that shake and reverberate.. and send sensory information to hte brain.. hmm
In my 20’s I could hear 18 kHz so well they audiologist asked if I was cheating. Decades later I top out around 10.5 kHz. I’m a musician and am now diligent about hearing protection as I don’t want to risk losing more.
What is your age?
lol i’m 19 and i top out at 10.6 kHz
probably your speakers@@gaberichter3701
I have 2oookhisthatnormlesallyspence
In my teens, I could hear beyond 20kHz. It was annoying since 20kHz noises are constantly played in public spaces (e.g. airports, malls) very loudly, so it was never a pleasant experience visiting these places. At 24, I already can't hear anything higher than 16kHz. This is scary... I didn't even know my hearing loss was this bad already at such a young age.
32 and can hear up to 17.5k which is wild to me but I thank God I didn't blow my eardrums out when I was younger to be able to hear as well as I do now.
I'm 27 and can hear somewhere between 16 and 17 k
Im 43 and can hear up to 17.5k... im a musician and used to go to a lot of raves too. Must be all the ear wax protecting my ears lol
I capped out at a 2-3-count before 16,000.
It was odd, until it hit 8,000 I had to keep lowering the sound until I was down to level 2, then between 8&10 I had to start raising the volume though not by much. Then everything blanked out at a 3-count before 16,000. So I retried it and raised the volume to the very highest level as it began to fade out, got perhaps an extra .5-1 second count before it blanked out again.
38 years old - female.
That's because of how humans hear certain frequencies, like the ones babies make, better and louder.
Bout the same
I am under 18 and I could hear 20 kHz. My science teacher plays 20 kHz to get my class to be quiet and she can’t hear it even though it bothers us so much we immediately stop talking. Some people complain about how annoying the sound is and others just hush up (this teacher is a great teacher and we all love her as a teacher❤).
She's not great if she's torturing you like this. You can get tinnitus and other permanent problems from this.
@@p0358for short bursts it shouldn't do any damage. It's much similar to a dog whistle. In fact dog whistles use similar frequency to what this video used at the higher spectrum, between 10000 and 20000.
Hello, thank you.
I am a lifelong sufferer of Tinnitus and Tones felt in my brain and my ears. I am 63.
Pain hit at 2000 HZ up to 4000HZ then passed. I stopped hearing the tones below 16000.
As I sit here now typing with earphones still on, Pitch is very high and non stop hum is louder. I have been to ENT, says I am alright. I also saw my Nuerologist about it. They keep telling me to see the other🙃.
Thank you again.🦋
Omg same here!!! Except I’m 30, and I’m feeling it more in my head than actual hearing it at some spots🥴 it’s so strange! I hope you get answers!!!
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76 years with constant tinnitus - lost the sound at around 8000, or rather it was lost in the tinnitus!
Same here
Same here... in my right ear
same... right ear at 8000 due to tinnitus and left ear went off at 16000 hertz
Similar for me. I have Tinnitus in my left ear and the tinnitus and tone matched up in the 8,000s. I then noticed that the sound, which had been louder in the left ear seemed to move into my right ear and I could hear, but very quietly, in the right ear to about 9,500. I am 65 years old.
Ever since I experienced a NDE I have had "tinnitus" or something like it. I am 47 in 2 wks, and I can hear up 14k as well. I attribute the loss of the upper frequencies to listening to music WAY too loud my entire life (but that's not likely to change)
Everyone’s ability to hear high frequencies declines as we age.
I just tried this on me and my husband. Now I now why he never mentioned anything about the awful loud squeaky sound that our car brake makes that I’ve been complaining about!
🤣🤣🤣 time for a hearing test!
i'm 52 suffer with tinnitus that's is getting progressively worse over time i topped out at 5.5k i go pick up my hearing aids on this coming Wednesday i'm nervous and excited ... i've been fighting breast cancer now two years i think the tinnitus is a result from the chemotherapy but hey at the moment at lest i'm breathing in and breathing out
43 year old guitarist, mostly protected my ears since I was 18. Gigs are not as loud as they used to be and I have much less tolerance than I used to. Started to get quiet at 14.5k and went silent at 15k. That was with headphones and mobile phone speakers. Feel lucky. I hope science can fix this stuff eventually!
I am 48 and mine went slience around 14-14.5k. I have been pretty careful but I did attend a lot of loud nightclubs in my 20s. I think I started to notice this difference around 10 years ago maybe. I didn't do any online tests until like a year ago. I was surprised I don't hear above 14.5k I thought I had "perfect" hearing :(
I feel as though everyone watching got this and it may be to do with the video. For me it also went quiet around 14k and silent at 16k
There's some **very** early promise in potential gene therapy treatment for promoting hair cell regeneration down the track, so it's all possible
I’m 58, and I could hear up around the 13k-14k mark. Interestingly enough, I tried turning up the volume way up once I could no longer hear, and I felt a strange sensation in my head, sort of some kind of pressure. So it’s not that my ears can no longer sense the higher frequencies, something else is going on…. 🤔
Sharp roll off at 12,000. 52 years old and I've been a musician since I was in my early teens.
Practically deaf in right ear 72 years old. Lost my right eardrum at 5 years old. Ent made an eardrum out of a blood vessel in the bend of the arm. Still a 10% hole. I could hear up to 8000 but that was without ear buds or headphones. I had iPad max volume.
I am 70 years old. I listened on different speakers to help verify the drop off was at the same point. I lost it at 8K. It was consistent with cheap BT speaker, quality headphones and through my stereo set up. I wonder if working in loud manufacturing environments through my 20's had an impact. I worked in a stamping plant for many years.
I think headphones would be a more proper test. High frequencies also get absorbed by the atmosphere faster than lower. That’s why bass can travel log distances.
Can not hear anything from the test
Great video.
58 year old with tinnitus.
Heard it up until 8000 that's it.
Thanks Drew! Matthew
Right there with ya. 8k and it was even. I also noted though when I listed at about 4-5k the tinitus would disappear for about 5-10.seconds
Me too.
Me 3 .. 56 had tinnitus from my 20’s from a firearm being discharged 2 feet from my left ear
56 about 8k on phone speaker - i do have high frequency hearing loss and have known that for 20 odd years
Hi 🙋🏼♀️
Here is 37 years old flight attendant. I topped out around 13000 kHz , guess that’s okay according to the job.
Thanks for the video 😊
I have my volume as low as possible and felt incredible discomfort right as the sound started. I'm 59, female, and the frequency immediately makes me feel like I am going to throw up. It also makes me start sweating and feel confused. I do suffer from migraines and have to avoid certain visual triggers, but as my eyesight has started to get worse, it seems like I am much more sensitive to sound. I had my finger on the volume control and had to stop right away.
I am 64 yo. The (sharp and well defined) rolloff from a subdued whiny tone to complete white noise occurred at around13KHz, using standard iPhone earbuds plugged into a PC. This is consistent with my test results at several other sites as well. That said, in practice I have difficulty with engaging in comfortable conversations while sitting in noisier restaurants/bars - the sort of places that my children take me to.
67 and probably around 12khz for me
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I am 61, and I have high frequency loss in both ears. I took your test, and I could only hear up to the 2000 mark. Yes, I do wear Phonak M-R30 hearing aids. I feel they are working. Is there a test when wearing the hearing aids to see how well you hear with them on?
I have suffered from tinnitus for the last two years. A constant high pitched ringing. I can hear all the way from 20 to 18000hz. How good must my hearing have been before the tinnitus? Or maybe there is another reason for the ringing in my ears?
I am 21 years old and i hear up 16k with out head phone
Very interesting and informative test. I'm 72, and here's what I found:
When I set the volume to about 50%, I experienced some fluctuations in volume, and the sound dropped out completely somewhere between 1000 and 2000 Hz. It then came back and dropped out completely again just before 8000 Hz.
When I set the volume to 75%, I experienced some fluctuations in volume, but was still able to hear everything until just about 8000 Hz.
When I set the volume to 100%, I again experienced some fluctuations in volume, but was still able to hear everything until just over 8000 Hz.
I had a hearing test a couple of months ago, but this little experiment gave me a whole lot more insight than the results of that test. Thank you for doing this, Matthew.
I also found fluctuations in volume at several different frequencies - like the volume was turned down and back up again.
I also heard an audio fluctuation listening to the tone on my laptop speakers and then through my Wonderboom Bluetooth speaker. I then listened with my headphones and the fluctuations disappeared. I think but do not know for sure that the fluctuations were caused by the echo off of nearby walls and windows. I had complete loss at 8k.
Most audio products respond to frequencies differently too. Some headphones have peaks and dips (for example, one headphone might play a 10000khz sound a lot louder than another)
I'm 54, musician and still my ears can listen clearly around 16,000 Hz
I am the same age and can also here 16khz although not a musician.
I am Signaler trained in Morse Codes which sharpened my hearing mainly to the mid to high frequencies. Has this compromised my hearing too?
10.5 I'm 50 with moderate hearing loss. Doesn't matter if I have my hearing aids in or not, it's the same.
From the beginning of the frequency to 16,000khz and im only 13 years old is that good or bad?
at one time, while early 20's i could hear 22k. Now at 72, i lost it at abouto 3,000, then back in at 3500 and up to 5000 and it stopped suddenly. I play horn and have a very hard time hearing speakers, conductors, and others in a room or class setting. My research is that this has more to do with brain function than ear function. That is the causes are brain related - stress, worry, pressure, lifestyle, health, physical shape, etc. GEt that in order and the hearing will improve. Apparenly hynotherapy will also work in sotme cases. Interesting stuff . . . .
At 75% on Edifier S3000pro speakers i lost it between 14,000 and 15,000. Im 46. Thanks for the great test as it will help me buy my next speakers😂
I'm 43 and 15k was when it got just out of range, suffer from excess wax build up
I'm 54 and could hear up to around 8.000 Hz. My hearing is better in my left ear than in my right and I have tinnitus on the right too. I'm seeing an audiologist next month.
With my headphones in all the way up i can hear until it stops.. the painful part of the sound is just prior to the threshold. I find that very interesting. When i was in highschool psychology we were doing a testing of the senses and when we were on hearing the teacher had everyone lay their heads down and raise their hand when they heard the frequency played. I was the only one accurately responding to the extremely high pitched frequencies by the end of it. I am 25 now. My vision is quite exceptional as well ..
50 years old and started to lose it at 10k but completely gone at 12k. I was surprised at how high 2kHz sounded! I would have thought it was low voice territory
Just turned 25 on November 14th. I could hear up to 16000 but past that I couldn't hear, however I could still feel it and it didn't feel great.
I am 64 and got to around 14k (just listening to laptop sound, no headphones) I think that is pretty good? I have been a DJ/Radio presenter so I don't think I have done too badly.
I guess that is good, I am 48 and can't hear above 14-15k
I'm 31 and with cheap bass boosted earphones I can easily (most of the time painfully) hear everything up to 16,000, but I do have very abnormal progressive low frequency hearing loss while my high frequencies go so high my previous audiologist ran out of high beeps 😂 Couldn't hear the starting range at all! Hope I get my hearing aids soon.
About 12.3 kHz. Very abrupt cutoff - gone at 13K. I'm male, 67 years old. Last time I tested was maybe 5 or 10 years ago and it was about 13K. So haven't lost much. Feeling happy today ;-) Note: If I stay at low volume, of course, I crap out lower - around 10 kHz. But I figure it should be fair to turn up the volume 20 dB or so - so I did. FWIW, I don't go to concerts or football games, etc without some hearing protection. However, I'm not fanatitical about it. Don't use any while mowing grass and I do use earbuds at maybe around 100 dB sometimes since I have always liked loud I(but not excessive) volume when listening to some music - to be able to hear the full sound stage. But after one concert in my youth where my ears rang for a half hour, I figured those levels were not good for me - so I never did that again ! ;-) Nice RUclips video. Thanks for providing this !
Im 55 and could hear to 8000, I have trouble hearing someone when there is back ground noise or in crowds. I have tinnitus, a constant high pitch sound 24/7. Thinking about trying a OTC device, any recommendations?
Hey Deanne, I’d say it’s worth getting your hearing tested! Thanks for the comment, Matthew
It is around 14k-15k.I am 32 years old..Is it right or wrong for me???Have I problem???Do I need check up??
Your hearing is fine 😊 Matthew
Thank you so much....😊😊😊I had tension...Now I am feeling good 😊😊. thanks a lot..
I wanna say my phone cuts out at 16,000 hz because i can hear and then it cuts out, but it does not cut out smoothly. I can still hear the 16000 hz pretty easily and it cuts out. Maybe i can’t hear past 16,000 but i think it may be my earbuds haha.
I'm 52 and was able to hear up to somewhere between 13,000 - 14,000 Hz
Similar to me, 48 years old, 14-14.5k
I’m 49 and I was able to hear up to about 15,000. The rest after that, I wasn’t sure if I was hearing it, or if it was my tinnitus messing with it. After 15,000 it seemed like a soft distant sound wavering up and down a little. I was diagnosed with tinnitus in January 2020 after having Flu Type A and Covid, so hopefully this range is still pretty good considering.
I am 37 and could hear up to 16 kHz is that good?
YES!
Same for me! 37 and 16kHz!
No
Age 42, at 4:05 minute it went silent. What does that mean?
Am 64. Got tinnitus about 5 years ago. Apparently my hearing loss is inherited. Have now lost 50% according to the ENT who I visited last week. The highest sound I can hear is 8173.66. After that I hear zero!
i am 16 year old i can hear 4000hz frequency sound.
what is the solution for this?
]pls help me
59 years young and a Army veteran paratrooper and 8k was where I tapped out!
As a 18 Year old
I can hear about 17.5GHz
10,500 in left ear. Right ear dropped out around 9,000. I am 67 years old and have significant tinnitus in both ears, but the right ear is worse than the left.
Thanks Nancy for sharing! Matthew
I linstened to this at school but when i came home my ears started hearing things louder than they are supposed to be.
Is that normal?
Almost 41 and I can hear up to 16.5. My kids came running down the stairs complaining the sounds were hurting their ears lol
16 KHz and I'm 40. Worked construction for many years so I'm surprised I scored so well
same and am 20 😅
I tried this with just my new Starkey Genesis AI ITE devices. I stopped hearing the tone around 7500 Hz. I will try again with headphones.
The 8 hz 1-1600 hz i could hear, I’m 45 that pretty good 👍 after ear wax removal, this will help improve my trance creativity better
14 and got to 13.5k (i can hear a lot more noises than people around me and i do get overstimulated from them so i listen to music a lot)
Hey Basil, that’s an interesting way to keep distracted. Thanks for sharing with the world. Matthew
Same here 13,5K and I'm 66 years so not bad I guess🙂
very good test i would add more detailes scale like 4500 or 5500 when I don't hear
Hey Piot, leave it with me and I’ll get something recorded and uploaded 😊 thanks for watching and taking the time to comment, Matthew
51 years old here went out at 12.5 22 years in the military surprised I could hear it. lol
34 years old and zoomed in to try to see the precise point that it began to fade for me. It was just after what looked like 18,500
17.4kHz-ish. I'm 37. I'm using studio monitors (JBL 305) instead of headphones.
18.000 clearly! I'm playing trumpet maybe that helps? I always hear the bads if im outside in the evening...
I hope you hear the goods too! Thanks for watching, Matthew
Good experiment Matthew. I could hear around 16000🥳🥳
Hey Carla, thanks for taking part! Matthew
RUclips videos cut off audio above (including) 16kHz just so you know.
Hey Neko, thanks for the heads up. Do you have a reference for that as I can't seem to find one, Matthew
Wait why?
All of them, with one earphone side working, the last one like ridiculous sound, I heard everything!!!! Dude you tryna kill me lol, I can still hear them after stopping the video LOL
I am 63 yrs. Could hear upto 9500 hz sound clearly.Is it ok?.
I must take pretty good care of my hearing. I'm 37 and could still hear the 16,000 on my phone without headphones while outside with noisy traffic and loud cicadas right by me.
I'm 45 and have tinnitus and could barely make out 15.5k and it was silent around 16k. I do remember when 18k was the upper limit of my hearing. Probably doesn't help that I went to a concert last week.
73 and I could definitely hear 10 khz but it faded out somewhere between 11 or 12 kHz. So much for worrying about the high end on speakers.
77 years old and it drops off a little over 8k. Back in the late 60s our speakers/headphones might have been the limit but I could hear the upper teens without trouble. Never liked extreme volume though.
What is true about the frequency in a hearing test?
1) Frequency affects the "pitch"
2) Frequency affects the "loudness"
3) Frequency is measured in decibel units
4) Frequency can also be a negative number
I have a question about this experiment. I know that you suggested to adjust our headphones so that things aren't too loud throughout the experiment, but are we supposed to keep our headphone volume at the same level the whole way through to do the experiment? I kept mine at about half volume throughout and stopped hearing things at around 14k maybe but then I did it again and found that if I increase the volume at about 14k, I could hear all the way to 20k. so I am not sure what that means for my hearing.... did I cheat?
I'm 47 and with headphones on, but with traffic still being heard outside my apartment, I seem to top off around 12,500 Hz. In the bathroom, with the a/c turned off and headphones, I seem to be able to hear up to 13,289 and maybe higher, but not sure.
I heard the WHOLE THING I COULD HEAR THE WHOLE THING!!
Wahoo! Matthew
About 3300. 39 years old and have had hearing issues in my left ear for the last 10 years
What does it mean if you can hear only up to a certain tone?
Hey Emsyq, what tone is that? Thanks for watching, Matthew
I could hear to about 16000hz on a lowish volume on my laptop without headphones. Couple of drops in the 1000hz to 3000hz range. Not too bad for 31 i think? Still not managed to match my tinnitus tone though.
That’s exactly what I got and I’m 31 next month..
Same for me. I’m 27.
I didn't mess around with the speakers. Just left them at your voice level "a bit louder" than I'd normally watch videos. it was 8,000 and I'm 80.
I hear all the way to the end but it becomes more wave-like and fluctuates/vibrates (interference pattern?) in the higher frequencies. I can also hear the whole spectrum of frequency pulsing back and forth and diminishing in frequency minutes after the video.
Hit space to stop as soon as it got silent, 16k and some, pretty good I think, but I've noted that each side of mine hear some frequencies better, as my right hearing can't hear a pitch around the 600hz there, but the left one can clearly.
16 000 hz. My audiologist said I’m loosing a bit at 6 k , but after this test i can hear pretty good the 6 k range.
Sad. 45 and have protected my ears my whole life but tinnitus started in both ears suddenly a few years ago. Other neurological symptoms started then too, so I don't think it is related to overexposure. Now the dropoff starts at 8k and pitch above that is buried in the constant ringing of the tinnitus. As a musician and recording and mixing enthusiast it's not ideal.
Should
How can u tell what you were at near the end ...the numbers were tiny at the bottom and the large pop up numbers had a huge span between them???
I'm 65 and could hear a scratching/squelching type sound at 14K, but I had turned the volume way up as I got over 10K. Is it still valid if you turn the volume way up?
yes
Got to 15,000 nothing after that. I do have very good hearing in general. I can usually pick up very high tones or low hums even out in the street. We have a street light about 50mtrs from my house, which sometimes emits very high frequencies which plays havoc with my ears. No one else in my house can hear it and they all think I’m going crazy. 😂
People think I'm crazy when I tell them to change the old television because of the high pitched ringing it makes.. had to record with a studio mic connected to an audio interface going into my laptop and then analyzing it with a vst audio analyzer just to show them there's a peaking noise at 18khz.. 😭
I’m 22 and stop at 15khz is it good?
It's very important to know that your headphones might have limitations.
I am a 19 years old musician, I always enjoyed high-end in music and I mix it myself, spending more time mixing high frequencies than low frequencies. When I was 16, I tested my ears and could hear up to 22.5khz. I did it again yesterday and I could barely hear 21 ish khz. I'm very worried.. my favorite frequencies in music are the ones above 18khz because I listen to glitchy music with precise high-end and I already cannot stand to listen to it when compressed at 320kbps because it isn't as precise in terms of sound quality.. I'm scared, really.. 😢
science will fix it for you in 5 to 10 years. Im the same as you and really pissed off I can only hear to 14.4 Khz now (age 53), since I am a music producer
@@stevea8099 It's honnestly, to me, not really something science could fix. Not necessarily more than a simple equalizer though, that's what I mean. If you hear frequencies less with age-related earing loss, which is the case here, it means the """string cells""" (I'm not a native English speaker, my apologies 😂) in your ears that are supposed to hear them are less present and/or damaged (not really, but in the big lines that's pretty much it) and if you turn up the volume, you technically can hear them again, I can increase the volume of my audio interface and generate a continuous sound at 25khz and hear it. The only difference is that it will sound like a pressure and not a sound. The higher the frequency, the more it will sound like "ear pressure" instead of sound. I'm sure you already boosted 17+khz to make a voice sound "fuller", to make it enter the ear, making it more centered. I can hear bats and rats, I live in the countryside and it's really ear tickling, but they're loud to me because they were close to my window. Thing is, that's why I heard them. The higher the frequency, the less volume you need to have in order to hear it, but after 15khz it stabilizes itself more and then it goes down again in volume so then you'll need more volume to hear above it. I might make no sense, but basically, you can hear them, but they will tickle your ear in a different way than they did before, when they were sounds, and you'll notice them as "pressure" and not as a note anymore, at least when talking about generated frequencies. Getting there to my second point, variations are still gonna be heard. A general ringing frequency might not appear as a sound anymore and your brain will not calculate it anymore and you might get the feeling of tickly pressure inside the ear instead of a note but when listening to hi-fi music it'll still be usually better to have all the upper frequencies. Sounds, when they're not staticly ringing or auto generated, are usually perceptible no matter where your ears roll off during a hearing test. Therefore, listening to my favorite album "hypochondriac" by Brakence (I recommend, especially the 3 lasts songs) is always a pleasure because I can identify the glitchy high end (he uses glitched sped up drums/hats/ticks/whatever in stereo and it tickles the ear when listening to his music which feels amazing).
To know if you're not capable at all of hearing some frequencies, put a random song in your daw and boost everything above 16khz by some crazy number. Even without aliasing you'll hear the difference and therefore it doesn't really means that it's not fixable. I just am scared of having to boost the volume of the high end to mix the frequencies I like, because it would feel kind of.. bad. And I dislike hearing 18khz that I now identify as a "pressure on the ears" although before it was a sound that I could tell the pitch of. Btw, don't generate a 25khz sound before putting the volume of your speakers to max just in order to hear them, I had pain for hours and it felt like someone stabbed my ears with a sewing needle 😭
@@stevea8099I hope you're right. Science will find a way to restore these things eventually. Hope it's that soon!
I started to hear the sound at 163 and could hear it until 11500 around 12700 sound disappeared completely.
I'm female 43 years young
I'm 35 and could hear up to 14.5k approx when i turn the sound to the max. Hearing test said i have mid lvl high frequency hearing loss. Is 14.5k very bad or?
its dogshit bro but I could only hear up to 13k and im 28 so it is what it is
@@sugo8920 do you have tinnitus?
I couldn't hear at 16k and onwards - I have left ear severe high frequency loss at 36 yrs of age. I guess my right ear is overcompensating 😅
16k is great Ash! Matthew
@HearingTracker thank you for the feedback, really happy to hear this!
14 kHz I am 62 years of age... My right ear is OK left is less
Thanks, 😀 Matthew
I’m 27 and have been around loud music a lot and I could hear just past 16000Hz.
18 year old music production student. Lost it very suddenly at 16k. Like loud and clear until that point. I am certain I could hear higher though so think either RUclips or my headphones were compressing it.
My right ear capped at 16.5k but my left ear can hear a bit more and possibly to 20k hz but it could all be in my brain. The thing is I have this weird high frequency ringing in my ear that makes it hard to discern anything after 16.5k but it’s only in my right ear.
it gets very slight at about 13 i can still hear something at 14 but its very hard. Is it not very slight? its only slight for me? Im not sure, because I asked someone else if they could heard anything audible past 13 and they said no, then i asked a teenager, and he said no. Are you all sure you're hearing something past 14, and not imagining that you are hearing something?
It was difficult to tell. Because you only put frequencies up at certain levels and they were VERY infrequent. Can you please do another one where every say 500hz is on screen rather than every 4,000? It would be a much more accurate test. As I am really interested as I suffer with Tinnitus and Diplacusis and ha ve done for years. Also I am 75% deaf in my left ear. Thank you.
Hello, on lower-left side of a screen there is numbers. “Accurate tone” leading to frequency numbers. They are very precise
16,000Hz, 34M though I did throw a firecracker down a pipe in the ground as a kid and became deaf for a few seconds. Not sure how much that could have affected my hearing
Sorry to hear that, it may be worth a test! Thanks for sharing, 😀 Matthew
52 yr old musician. Dropped out between 13.5-14
I am an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person). I just moved due to the noise hear. No mufflers, children screaming, and upstairs neighbors sounding like they are marching in combat boots. "Bump, bump, bump, bump" Always four steps. Over and over again, all hours. I got to 8,000 on the test, which I find weird. I literally moved to a house in 115 acres, where there is absolutely no woune. I have ADHD, and these distractions made it impossible for me to accomplish anything. I would play ocean wavers on my speakers at full volume for "white noise" and then have my TV up to 100 volume just to cover "rush hour" . Just started researching it. I also find that I have always have been able to remember all the lyrics in songs from the 1940's through at least 2000. Thanks for the video!
Im 31 and anything 14k hz i cant hear a thing i have been for a hearing test today and the audiologist said my hearing even though most of it is in the normal range is sitting much lower for someone my age and i have mild hearing loss in my left ear
We are the same, im 35 and lost it at 14.5k or so.. Doctor said i have a high frequency hearing loss. Are you thinking about hearing aids?
@@voodooaaWhen would you want to hear above 14k? That is an unpleasant sound IMO. Doctor is giving you bad advice if recommended hearing aids for 14k in your 30s
@@dannycolverson6944 I have tinnitus, and idk if its from high freq hearing loss or somehing else :(
Im 77 and I could here at what I estimate to be 12,000 14,000. Certainly closer to 16000 that 8,000.
Thanks, 😀 Matthew
it seemed like 14k hrtz, it dived or extremely fast, but there is amplifcation and othe rmeans to sound itself to being able to hear it... and you also need speakers that can occiliate the magnet correctly..
I tried again and put it on loop... and waited, since I can listen to my tv at the lowest volume lat at night when I attune my ears I guess... So...easily died off... cranked the voluem up and the die off was 15k, then it died off and was really concentrating... then I clicked over and around 15k and 20k stop to see if i could hear anything nothing, but kept clikcing around.. and when I click on teh 17.5k I could hear the tone after repeatedly clicking and it would fade... then suddenly it didn't fade and I thought it was magic.. I would state my normal hearing range for the life i live is around 14k hertz.. and I have an undetermined range... that is attainable.. I mean the physics of the sensory system is locked to the sensory collection system if its not damaged, then whatever its high limit is set, howeve,r something that scares people is what is the loudest sound your brian can auditorially produce inside ones head, so this would be your brain, with direct input by passing the sensor load of the ear and directly the sound reconstructor... no one could answer what the loudest sound can be produced in the mind of a person that goes for all senses... which knowing about oci[pital manipuation for hte viewing field begs teh question.. of brain hacking for input delivery systems... the loudest sound is probably not produced in the universe but in the mind of the person. That was my experience with this... definately 14k was easy, and it died off... 15k with every and volume maxed easily... and 17.5k when clikcing around and after a time of being super quiet and waiting and concentrating..... could i go higher I don't know... tests are not hte best tests as its typicalyl all test are a interelation to the context at hand.. and not hte to9tality of hte system. WIthout any ear damage, we the nahve genetic physical properties we can gauge, like the little fibres that shake and reverberate.. and send sensory information to hte brain.. hmm