Online Hearing Tests

Not sure I understand the graph...

I see - thanks Mike.

I'd be curious to take a good test. My hearing seems pretty good, I still get annoyed by barely audible high frequencies and such. But who knows...

Here's mine, listening through my AKG-240 headphones and at a comfortable level. The AC is working in the background and it's loud enough for me to hear it through the cans, so it might have interfered.

Still not bad for an old geezer who used to play in rock and metal bands, I think. Though I'm perplexed by the "blind spots" - like 4K, which it seems I can't hear as well as the neighboring frequencies.

I thought dogs could hear those high frequencies!

Compared to Rain's and Beagle's tests, I'm practically deaf.
I also took a simpler one with just tones at 3 or 4 frequencies.
I couldn't hear anything above 3 K.
It was from a maker of hearing aids and could have been made so you think you're losing your hearing, like reducing the volume of the higher frequency tones.

I virtually ALWAYS end my day by turning off Sonar in disgust, having concluded that it's impossible to get anything to sound good in the thing. 

And then in the morning, after I've showered and done my stretches, with the birds singing and the sun shining through the windows, I have my cup of tea and slide a cheerful set of headphones over a buoyant head, and it's as if the scales have fallen from my ears.  

Even though it a small un professional test, it explains quite a bit for me

I tried it sitting as if I were in my mixing setting.

90hz and under AND 8k and up real bad for me.

Explains alot on my mixing Im struggling with and I gues why the end result is heavier on low and high end and thin in the middle.

At best an online test with good cans is going to show the relative frequency loss, without saying much about the actual amount of the deficit. That could still be useful for screening, and alert someone who hasn't a clue like the lady in the following anecdote:

An elderly woman joined the doctor following his examination. 
"Are there any concerns you would like to discuss?" he asked. as was his routine.
"Well yes, doctor," she said, "I seem to have a problem with farting. You know the type silent but deadly."
"Yes madam," he replied, "I do know. And it appears you also have a problem with your hearing as well."


It is not too difficult to find a free audiogram using calibrated equipment in a sound attenuated booth in most cities in the US. Typically they are offered by people who are trying to flog hearing aids, but in many cases they are nonethelss accurate. Even hearing aid fitters have the occasional bout of ethics.

Mine is pretty bad.
How do you copy the graph to post it here?
 
My baseline at 1khz is -57
 
30hz= -6
 
45hz= 27
 
60hz= -33
 
90hz=-42
 
125hz= -48
 
187hz= -51
 
250. 375, 500, and 750hz = -54
 
1 and 1.5khz = -57
 
2khz= -60
 
3khz= -57
 
4khz= -54
 
6khz= -39
 
8khz=-30
 
12khz= -9
 
16khz= I cannot hear it at all.
Note my tinnitus is strongest around 6khz ad is loud today...
 
I would post a pic of the graph if I knew how. I tried the test three times with similar results mostly because of starting with a diffeerent baseline... this one was with the lowest baseline and could have been a little higher, but was enough to hear. I used AKG K-240s.
 
Am I deaf or am I going deaf? It does seem like I say the word, "huh" and awful lot lately...
 
J
 
 
 
 
 
 

Julian = you have to copy the graph by using a picture program like paint, save it then upload it to a server like photobucket.  then put the url of the picture location into the picture icon of the forum.

And for my chart, I was using my Ultimate Ears In Ear Reference Monitors with my (turned off) ATM-50s covering them (for better background noise cancellation).

57Gregy


I've been thinking about taking some courses at a local community college to learn something I can do sitting down in a warm office and not having to lift heavy things. I'd like to do recording, but I know my ears aren't capable of producing great-sounding results.
To see how bad it really is, I took a couple online hearing tests.
 

 
Shucks. Photobucket has changed some things and the image isn't appearing like it should. Or maybe it's the forum software?
 
http://s244.beta.photobucket.com/user/GregFields/media/hearingtest.jpg.html
 
Anyway, it's bad.

I wouldn't trust an online hearing test. The environment is so laced with rogue frequencies and crap waves right now, you'd have to build a new isolation booth and stay in it for a day or two to get an accurate hearing test.