How old are your ears?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcbppCX6Rk

my ears are under 30 btw

Oh man that is depressing. I got under 40. Which I guess is what I am, but still, fuck.

I got under 40. I'm 34. So, ok.

I actually think the subway has done more to damage my hearing than music.

Exactly the same as Nick.

Under 40, just about. Not bad for 45 years old and 20 years standing in front of bloody drummers, trying to make myself heard with ever-increasing walls of amplification.

Weird! I got "Under 50," which, I've never worried about my hearing before but maybe I should start!

Ding it again, I only just hear under 40.

That result is genuinely confusing to me bc I've never been in a band, never was a habitual show-goer of v loud things, have used earplugs on and off for a while, never worked in a factory or with power tools or around airplanes...I may have ruptured one of my eardrums last year with a Q-tip though.

don't panic y'all, watch the video in HD/1080/highest quality. it plays a less compressed version of the audio file -- initially i was only able to hear the 40 yr old tone, but when i upped the video quality i could hear the next one too.

yeah it also says headphones and I listened on my office computer speaker at low volume. will try again when I get home.

Oh good point, I could sort of hear the Under 30 sound in that one, although it's almost more of a sense that the atmosphere has changed without being able to say why. If someone played that in a room I was in, I'm not sure I would even notice it except to be uneasy.

watch the video in HD/1080/highest quality. it plays a less compressed version of the audio file

If you realized this, you are under 30.

also, real hearing tests fade in the pitches instead of letting them click in, makes a big difference

haha, no you're just over 30 and concerned enough about your ears to read the comments/annotations.

On headphones I can hear under 40 really clearly. Can't hear under 30 though.

I increased the quality and could hear the under 30

honestly it was hard to tell the difference between these sounds and the loud ringing in my ears

lol :(

half joking. I mostly hear the ringing at night in bed :(

It mostly comes at night. Mostly.

I'm apparently still under 50 years old, which makes me feel pretty good.

Not worth me even doing it. Standing next to drum kits playing bass in various bands for nearly 15 years gives you a lovely ringing noise 24/7.

Under 30 via my dece Harman Soundsticks, I don't have headphones to find out if I can get under 24.
Never in a band but tons of power tools, a couple of times I've had gunfire within 15-20 yards without ear protection, and many many bad teenage punk shows.

watched in HD, could hear up to 18000 when I turned it up really loud. but I think that has to do with the frequency response of these headphones because I know I've heard higher frequencies on my headphones at home.

in HD I can hear up to 16000Hz/under 30 and can hear a sort of hiss down to 18000Hz/under 20 but it's more like an artefact than the tone itself. That seems weird given the amount of noisy gigs I've been to over the years, continual in-ear headphone usage etc. I'm probably lucky, I've had tinnitus & temporary hearing loss quite a few times but it always goes away after a few days. I know this probably won't last.

under 50 :(

Somebody on another forum showed that even when it's set to HD, if you have a low quality soundcard this video might be putting out literally no sound at all at some of the highest frequencies.

Here's another test for comparison: http://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_frequencycheckhigh.php

On that one it comes in pretty quickly between 17 & 16KHz so not that different

under 50 and grateful for it - I expected it to be a lot worse. it's kinda lol sitting through the rest of them & goin' "nope...nope...nope"

can only just hear the under 40, but i am 39 so

Under 50, was suprised I even heard that considering the hole in my eardrum/severe tinnitus.That test was a little broad tho - weve had other threads with links to more nuanced tests iirc

Mine are thrash cuz of gangsta rap/death metal shows.

Prolly 67

I've become all but deaf in the left ear, with a raging case of tinnitus to fill the sonic void. I think I'll abstain from any hearing tests. It'll tell me I'm 90 yrs old or something.

damn my ears are 50... they like to kick, shimmy... and kick!

My ears are at least 2 years younger than I am.

Collardio: same here but my right ear. Found out by accident (while GP was checking for the psoriasis in my ears) that I have a hole in my eardrum! Well no wonder.

Under 50, but not using headphones, but I turned it up pretty loud. Also Jeff is in the other room so I wonder if I'm sitting here hearing nothing while he's clutching his head because the sounds... they won't stop....

Anyway, I've had multiple hearing tests in the past year because it was a banner year for ear infections so I know my hearing is a little below normal, but I think it's better than this YouTube test says it is.

I have an older macbook Air with terrible sound and even worse old speakers plugged into it, so I'm going to choose to believe those things are the culprits and not my hearing.

carl, are you in the living room and is Jeff in the erstwhile dining room, Y/N? It would just make me happy to know.

Oh gosh IO yeah a laptop speaker test would be futile so dont panic :) You have to do these things on heaphones. Actually when Ive done real hearing tests they also do one where they wire the sound up to the skull bone *behind* each ear, which was interesting. Sitting in a soundproof booth was also weird as shit.

...ive had a lifetime of ear hassle. :(

Ha no, I was in the not-dining room and Jeff was in bed, where he couldn't otherwise see/hear what I was up to, which made it funnier to imagine him suddenly overtaken by sounds. Like a dog whistle.

under 24, and pretty happy about that