…apparently at age 50 you should be able to hear 12khz and everyone should hear up to 8khz
If I knew what that meant I’d know whether to congratulate or feel sorry for you.I'm 4db down at 15k, 51 years young.
…tried this the other day and was quite shocked that I can only hear just past 13khz :
Before Covid lockdown, it was around 16khz
…not sure a SuperDAC is worth me hunting for anymore
Are you still convinced the great DAC is coming ?
Of course!
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My inner ear follicles have been reproducing overtime. You should see what’s sprouting from my ears these days. It’s an age thing. After I have a trim, the top end sounds so much better.Lol …don’t kid yourself, this cheap equipment probably clips after 18khz - iPhone 11 I’ve got and that test works fine all the way up as my daughter and her friend said they heard it all (but was iffy after 18khz)!
…not all doom and gloom, allegedly Scientists are looking into something that allows the single cell fine hair follicles in the inner ear reproduce; thus retaining some hearing ability!
I found the top end depended more on the headphones I tried than anything else. -e.g. with the Senn 599SE s I picked up to play with some months ago (which are a bit flabby in the low end but mid- top on music is rather clean) - to 16K in right ear as a clear, discernable, distinct tone , to 12.5k in my left after which it was a vague but unpleasant sensation. I am 51. I have no idea if it is me, or ..artifacts of the particular choices or devices I tried.I'm 4db down at 15k, 51 years young.
Agreed -the loss of 12-18 kHz probably isn’t of itself going to affect your enjoyment. But chances are if you are losing that range you are probably also having trouble hearing in the range which really does matter. A quick scan of the various age-related hearing range charts shows - 1) gets worse at all frequencies.I found the top end depended more on the headphones I tried than anything else. -e.g. with the Senn 599SE s I picked up to play with some months ago (which are a bit flabby in the low end but mid- top on music is rather clean) - to 16K in right ear as a clear, discernable, distinct tone , to 12.5k in my left after which it was a vague but unpleasant sensation. I am 51. I have no idea if it is me, or ..artifacts of the particular choices or devices I tried.
wider view:
And - of course - a simplistic test like this is pretty useless - there's several essential issues:
(1) that this is any kind of 'testing' - it isn't testing, it is old blokes dicking about with uncalibrated level and a source file of unknown provenance, and vol control of their choosing - and a whole bunch of how we go about it, is NOT vaguely comparable etc
(2) That the upper end of such things has anything to do with perception of timbre - it doesn't, the ear is essentially deaf to pitch above c. 8 Khz for simple reasons.*
(3) that in consequence - that this kind of thing has '=SQRT[f.a]' relationship to do with enjoying music, or pleasure from listening, or acuity of perception of what your enjoy - the stuff that actually matters!
* Do try re-running the test again and rather than listening for whistling tone - note where your ability to differentiate the changing pitch stops.
That is far, far more illuminating - and maybe a better assessment of how your perception of music might be. It'll be much less affected by the single-tone top-end approach than you think.
audiophile cochlear implants?lol maybe we can have the DAC with an extra cable with sticky electro pads, stick to each temple, that starts gently shocking us in stereo after the personalised frequency cut-outs - so we still experience something… I might have to put a Copyrite on that
I presume you mean de-waxed?Has anyone had their ears waxed? “This won’t hurt sir”. Bloody hell!