High end hearing loss

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How many hear check their high range hearing often? I was surprised to learn that I seem to top out at about 11k in the high frequency. I am 60 and have good hearing. Where do most of you top out frequency wise?

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I don’t hear anything over 13k.
I’m 68 and been around loud machinery most of my life so I guess it could be much worse.

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There have been a good number if threads on this issue in various guises. E.g., Hearing Issues

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Yeah, I’m an ex-musician and listened to A LOT of loud music in my day. I THINK I could hear up to 12k, but 11k was for sure. Music still sounds great tho…

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Yes I still enjoy listening to music and honestly don’t feel like I am missing anything.

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what?

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RonP’s hearing cuts out at 150 Hz… :grin:

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My question is, how did you determine the 11k? Most hearing tests stop at 8k. I’ve used test signals to verify recently that I got at least to 10k, but I’m not sure if the method I generated them (iPhone app) was legit. I was surprised that I could hear pretty good from 3k-8k since my last hearing test said I had a serious “notch” in this span.

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I resemble that remark :crazy_face:

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If I go by what I hear from my speakers when the base noise level in my room is 27dB(A), then 16-17 KHz. That is to say, I know I can hear 16K, and I’m pretty sure I can hear 17K. Each ear in direct line with the tweeter.

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If I knew where my hearing rolled off, I might not be able to justify buying high-end HiFi gear anymore. :rofl:

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That is seriously good hearing. Many teenagers cant hear that far up the range.

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When I was in college we messed around and built a variable frequency generator with output to different sized drivers (including tweeters - pulled them from dead speakers we’d collected). Just fooling around. The generator was accurate. If I believe what we did was reasonably well designed (MIT, cough cough :wink:) then at that time I could detect a tone at 20KHz (actually just a bit higher as I recall) from a high frequency driver at reasonably low output about 6” from my ear. We used an unused classroom very late at night to do the tests. Would have never been quiet enough in our dormitory. Always too much :musical_score:

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