Would like to compare results of this hearing test for mixing purposes.

 
Below is a link to a Youtube video for a hearing test.
 
I for one could not hear anything beyond 8,000 Hz, which apparantly is normal for my age. Even though I can't hear the frequencies above 8,000 the meters on my mixer definately detects them, which tells me that they are indeed being played.
 
I suppose this means that all those adjustments I've been making with my EQ that are above 8,000 Hz have been useless adjustments since I haven't been hearing them anyway? I could have sworn I was hearing a difference after those adjustments but I suppose it was my imagination.
 
Just wondering if any of the rest of you can hear them?
 
I'm hoping you folks could please click on the link below, state the highest frequency you can hear, and include your age in your response. I'm curious to see if the rest of you can hear these frequencies.
 
Example:
I can't hear anything above 8,000 Hz and I'm 58. (But I look 35)
 
EDIT: Oh, yea. They say to use the option to watch it in 1080p and to use headphones.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcbppCX6Rk
 
Thanks,
Pete
 

I, astoundingly, made it all the way to 15000.  Which is hard to believe since I spent way too many years playing live music way too loud.

I'd be surprised if I could make it all the way to 150.

I tried this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o810PkmEsOI
 
I could hear 30hz and it dropped off dramatically at around 8khz I could hear a little to about 10 or 11khz but only because the sound began to move in the stereo field. It got louder at about 100hz. I guess any mixing abouve 8khz should be done usung meters and I shoud always get a second opinion... a good case for someone eslse mastering but I wonder how people like George Martin mastered when older. I am sure a lot of the older mastering "masters" suffer from the same hearing loss, how could they not?
 
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
 
Julien
 
 

 
Wow! These are interesting responses.
 
It never really registered to me how differently folks are hearing my music. I always knew that hearing high frequencies declined as we aged but never really thought that much about it.
 
Sometimes I think I want my cymbals to "sizzle" more and I'll adjust those frequencies. Then I'll listen back and swear that I can hear a difference. Perhaps I'm not hearing a difference but am just more focused while listening and I only think that I'm hearing a difference.

just remember
 
boosting ABOVE 15k still effects harmonic content of stuff BELOW 15k
 
 
but if you can't hear that, there's not much point
 
 

 
Thanks for all the responses. I think this is very interesting.
 
I checked out jbow's link in his above post and tried that test. If I kept the volume level static throughout the test I could hear until about 12,000. If turned the volume up extremely loud I could hear things all the way until the end but it sounded as though the signal was not a "steady" frequency but rather going up and down the spectrum of frequencies so I'm a bit confused about that one.

Should the fact that I can hear 20Hz loud and clear offset the disappointment I have at not being able to hear above 15K? Think I'm going to concentrate on reggae and dubstep from now on 

I couldn't hear past 8K on the first test, but I just barely made it up to 11K on the second test.  

To put it in musical perspective (hearing sensitivity drops a LOT over a just few semitones):
 
7,040.00 A
7,458.62 Bb
7,902.13 B
8,372.02 C
8,869.84 C#
9,397.27 D
9,956.06 Eb
10,548.08 E
11,175.30 F
11,839.82 F#
12,543.85 G
13,289.75 G#
14,080.00 A
14,917.24 Bb
15,804.27 B
16,744.04 C
17,739.69 C#
18,794.55 D
19,912.13 Eb
21,096.16 E
22,350.61 F
23,679.64 F#
25,087.71 G
26,579.50 G#
28,160.00 A