It means you are superman. But seriously, I suppose the wider range you can hear, the better. Forgot to mention the blurb said to set your volume control to what you'd normally watch television at.
When playing with loud electric bands or listening to them it's very smart to wear musicians ear filters. Stage volumes can be very high. If your ears are still ringing/buzzing the next day you should have been wearing hearing protection the night before. Also, good idea to have a hearing test and keep your results filed as a baseline to compare against future test results as you get older. When we start losing our hearing it's not straight across the board. We lose at specific frequencies, especially, the high end. That's why a person can still have much of their hearing left but have difficulty with understanding speech. That's where we really need those high frequencies. All the best, Jay
Oh, cool! Yeah, I had my volume set to the normal level. I always wear hearing protection when doing things like weedeating or sanding. I also wear earplugs at indoor concerts (okay, at least 80% of the time I do!). ---------- ------------------ View my videos on YouTube!"
@ isaacullah. I can see from your youtube posts you are probably in your 20's. Take the advice of others on this thread and protect your ears when ever you are around loud noise and that includes music. I even used earplugs when commuting on a busy freeway. My hearing was busted after spending hours on the working end of a paint chipping hammer in the Navy. My tinnitus rings about 6 kHz.
Fun maybe but not really a meaningful test...many folks will be listening through little PC speakers that have trouble reproducing below 70-100Hz, maybe at the high end too, so take "results" with a pinch of salt. The fact that you can play with the volume means that there is no yardstick in terms of dB.
With my headphones Sennheiser eH150 I can hear from the beginning (20Hz) to 14kHz. With relatively good PC speakers from 60Hz only to the same 14-15kHz! I think everything above 14kHz is cutted by yuotube compression. I experimented with adobe audition tone generator and I can hear tones to 23kHz. Every ten year man lost 1kHz at high end. ----------
@5F6H Yes it is just for fun really, but even though our equipment may not be sufficient to give an accurate assessment, it may just make people realise how precious our sense of hearing is, and, if someone is missing out on a huge chunk of upper or lower frequencies, it may prompt them to get further advice.
