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.

Not sure I understand the graph...

The graph charts how high the playback level of the test tone must be set at for it to seem audible.

It's hard to take the results too seriously without including some sort of calibration correction for the play back system.


It was fun to give it a try though. :-)

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html

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...

Hey, it looks like you have the aural equivalent of Auratone speakers! Should be able to get a decent mix then..

Seriously though, I'm not sure if that graph isn't normal, depending on your age. And I'm pretty sure there are some good audio engineers out there who have poor frequency response above 10K. There are probably ways to compensate. 

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.

Mike's right, there's no calibration information on this, but it's not without merit.

I have a significant notch loss at 12k.  and that corresponds to the professional hearing test I had a couple of years ago.
I think this is pretty darn good for a 49 1/2 year old...

 
this test doesn't show it, but I also know that above 16k I pretty much roll off the chart.  I can't hear 18k+ at all.

I thought dogs could hear those high frequencies!

craigb


I thought dogs could hear those high frequencies!

not old dawgs!

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.