Blanca
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 08, 10 1:36 PM
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ok...too many rock concerts for me i think.... here's an interesting link: http://www.youtube.com/wa...9g0yThhJcxY&fmt=18 I only really hear the mosquito at 14.9kHz (at normal listening volume), but if i boost the volume +6db, i can hear the 19.8kHz EDIT: or can you hear this one? (mosquito sound layered over some environment) Mosquito sound
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 8:02 AM
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Blanca
ok...too many rock concerts for me i think....
here's an interesting link:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...9g0yThhJcxY&fmt=18
That's a nifty test... but I think I found a weird glitch. I can hear subharmonics beginning at 19.8kHz. I know they can't be the real tones, because it sounds like they're rising as the freq descends. Does anyone else hear those? (Or did my ears magically regenerate in the last week?) Interesting stuff about fluoride. I have a story that's possibly related... I stopped using fluoride toothpaste back in 2003 and started using plain baking soda instead (btw that works great for whitening). At the time I had no major hearing issues. Around 2007 I started using fluoride toothpaste again because I got a bunch of free tubes and was too lazy to buy baking soda. My hearing became noticeably worse in the latter half of 2007. It's a stretch, but maybe the two are related. Hey, I found a really interesting article about foods & suppliments that supposedly improve hearing... http://www.associatedcont...ments_that.html?cat=51 It suggests: take Alpha Lipoic Acid (spinach, potatoes, broccoli) take vitamin E (wheat germ, fruits, vegetables, nuts) take B12 (seaweed, spirulina) quit smoking
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 9:08 AM
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I'm on well water... that must be the secret to my ability to hear at all.
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 4:22 PM
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Am I the only one who's not main-lining Colgate?
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 5:53 PM
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Spaceduck
Blanca
ok...too many rock concerts for me i think....
here's an interesting link:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...9g0yThhJcxY&fmt=18
That's a nifty test... but I think I found a weird glitch. I can hear subharmonics beginning at 19.8kHz. I know they can't be the real tones, because it sounds like they're rising as the freq descends. Does anyone else hear those? (Or did my ears magically regenerate in the last week?)
Interesting stuff about fluoride. I have a story that's possibly related...
I stopped using fluoride toothpaste back in 2003 and started using plain baking soda instead (btw that works great for whitening). At the time I had no major hearing issues. Around 2007 I started using fluoride toothpaste again because I got a bunch of free tubes and was too lazy to buy baking soda. My hearing became noticeably worse in the latter half of 2007.
It's a stretch, but maybe the two are related.
Hey, I found a really interesting article about foods & suppliments that supposedly improve hearing...
http://www.associatedcont...ments_that.html?cat=51
It suggests:
take Alpha Lipoic Acid (spinach, potatoes, broccoli)
take vitamin E (wheat germ, fruits, vegetables, nuts)
take B12 (seaweed, spirulina)
quit smoking
those first 4 frequency's are bad. They only last about 10/100ths of a second. Actually they are just a noise spike. All of the frequency's are at different levels. The higher ones are two in one. Like an 18K and 22k in the same sample. ( at least that's what my system tells me). Then add the fact they say you probably wont hear the first 4 and it sounds bogus anyway.
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Garry Stubbs
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 6:32 PM
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Hi Jimmyman, I have not run the audio through anything to test it..... except, our dog is currently on the other side of my lounge sitting on my partners lap, and without either of them knowing what I was doing, my partner noticed the dogs ears prick up and swivel looking for a sound source at the 21.1 khz point.
It was such a novelty I told her what I was doing and ran it a further 3 times, and he looked for the sound source each time at the same point. Then he wandered off to the kitchen for a drink so that was the end of that. I'm hearing something at 19.8 and 18.8 but I cant believe my hearing is this acute and I have to put this down to an inaccurate source or possible, as Spaceduck said, subharmonics
Interesting though
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 09, 10 7:17 PM
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The Kiosk Project
Hi Jimmyman, I have not run the audio through anything to test it..... except, our dog is currently on the other side of my lounge sitting on my partners lap, and without either of them knowing what I was doing, my partner noticed the dogs ears prick up and swivel looking for a sound source at the 21.1 khz point.
It was such a novelty I told her what I was doing and ran it a further 3 times, and he looked for the sound source each time at the same point. Then he wandered off to the kitchen for a drink so that was the end of that. I'm hearing something at 19.8 and 18.8 but I cant believe my hearing is this acute and I have to put this down to an inaccurate source or possible, as Spaceduck said, subharmonics
Interesting though
My guess is that the first four have (and my test show this (if my test are accurate) a high level of broadband noise. The frequency's are (sort of) in there. So a person who would not normally hear a true and clean 18k pure sine wav would still here the noise. I can tell that something is there when I play (my own) sine wav at say 18K. But I dismiss calling actually being able to hear it because it's so much weaker than say a 10k sine wav to my ears. I basically say my ears start loosing at about 10k. Its gradual up to about 13K. then the (loosing slope) gets very steep. Your dog test proves that something is there but I can't say because I don't (or can't) hear that.
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Philip
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 10, 10 2:10 PM
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Well my hearing at 30Hz was/is exceedingly bad ... the rest is somewhat similar to Space Duck's.
But my 4 KHz (3.5 = baby crying?) range was most sensitive it seemed ... but I took the test in a hurry (to decrease bias)
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Johannes H
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 11, 10 2:57 PM
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I did a high frequency test using a sine-wave oscillator.
At 13khz the signal started to fade, so it seems that my hearing might be ok now.
Best, JH
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Johannes H
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Re:Am I the only one whose hearing REEKS? (online hearing test)
January 12, 10 10:19 AM
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