Comments on: Hearing Test – Can You Hear This?

By: Raych

Raych — Thu, 02 May 2013 23:28:20 +0000

I can hear 16 and below, and then 20-22. My left ear has hearing loss, as I had many ear infections in it. It only hears up until 14 and nothing else.

By: Kaye

Kaye — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:33:25 +0000

I am 53 and I can hear 20 and below in my right ear and 12 and below in my left. I did not expect this because I am using a laptop. I found out I got better results when I used my earphones instead of the laptop speakers. I already know I have a hearing problem because of my time in the military and on t he flight line.

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:34:27 +0000

I am 14, and only heard 14 and below, I tried it on multiple computers with the same results. Weird… I could barely hear 15, but I could “feel” it more than I could “hear” it. I did this in my Physics class and everyone else could hear the tones around 19 and below.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:17:01 +0000

This is because Beats by Dre use cheap drivers so their ability to reproduce sound cleanly is poor, very poor. If anything I’d say they are able to reproduce most of the frequencies hearable after a notable amount of sound loss, everything above that is severely rolled off.

By: Mr_Cf

Mr_Cf — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:41:53 +0000

A very good point, but don’t forget that this are compressed samples. This has a number of effects on the sound as well.

1: Most compressors are designed for music and speech reproduction, not for pure tone replication. They won’t be geared to reproduce these high notes and in some compressors those frequencies would be filtered out, to save space.

2: as stated above the compressors are not designed for pure tone especially at those high notes, so your likely hearing a resonance of that frequency rather than the frequency it’s self.

By: Thom Dunbar

Thom Dunbar — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 07:30:25 +0000

I’m 3 months short of 52, and I can hear 19khz on my laptop speakers – I have pretty good speakers in my laptop. When I was 15, I delivered newspapers, and found that one of my customers had a TV that made a noise I could hear before I got to his house. I couldn’t tell if it was on visually until I actually got to his front porch, where I could see him thru his picture window, watching TV. I found that in the winter time, I could hear his TV from about half a block away.
I worked with computers in my 20′s and 30′s, and would often catch my friends with their computers turned off, but their monitors still turned on – some of the older ones didn’t have a power on light – but I could hear the hum. Most of my friends were around my age, and they couldn’t hear it.
My 13 year old son took me to a site like this 6 months ago, and it had ages listed for the sound frequencies – I thought my score on that site was worse, but I think I could still hear as well as a 32 year old – at least by that sites standards. He thought it was so funny that I couldn’t hear the rest of the sounds he could hear. I didn’t think it was funny.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:24:39 +0000

You are correct, 19khz and above can not be heard through my laptop speakers because the speakers could not reproduce sounds this high on the frequency range. I am 30 years old and could here them all except 19khz and above, i had my dog next to me and he was asleep, he could not hear 19khz and above either, it was when i played 18khz that his ears perked up and he looked directly at the laptop. I haven’t tried yet, but try playing the sounds through a stereo that is capable of reproducing that high of a frequency and see if you can hear. My guess is since these are so flawed you will be able to.

By: Brandi

Brandi — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:08:14 +0000

I’m glad that a lot of you can hear all the frequencies. I’m 29 and in my right ear I can’t hear 12 and 14 then 17 thru 22. My left ear stops at 17. I know that I have hearing loss just not sure how bad or if I should get it checked out but this test has helped to show me that maybe I should get them checked. Thanks.

By: melissa

melissa — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:18:07 +0000

I cannot hear past 12Khz. I’m 17, is this something I should be worried about? I used just my laptop speakers then I used apple headphones then I hooked it up to my Sony stereo system which I know is capable to play past these tones. Neither made any difference to me I still cannot hear past 12Khz

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:11:32 +0000

I’m only 16 and I couldn’t hear number sixteen at all. Wow.