What range of frequencies can you hear?
- Play this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-iCZElJ8m0
- Make sure to play it at 1080p HD. Adjust your loudness to your usual monitoring level.
- What is the lowest frequency you hear? What is the highest?
- Does the signal stay in the centre all the time? Each ear (or your headphones/speakers) could have slightly different responses.
- Which ranges sound louder? Your ears are more sensitive to some frequencies than others.
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24 Hz to 14,5 kHz with KRK KNS-6400 closed headphones. I guess the top end loss is normal for an almost 49 year old. 2,1 kHz sounds louder on the left. 3,4 to 4,0 kHz and 5,4 kHz louder on the right. There's a big dip in loudness at 8 kHz. Take care of your hearing!
22 Hz to 16500 Hz with Sennheiser HD 485 open headphones.
But actual results could be better without a running 3D-printer in the background :P
In reponse to your withdrawn comment :)
I'll try to re-check in a week. I'm having a cold and my ears are rather dull ATM.
About the loudness: this highly depends on the headphones/monitors the audio compression algorithm in use and if the human loudness perception had been taken into account. The lack of description makes be believe it's more of a party game than science ;)
I deleted my original comment because I realised that the left/right differences were reversed when I reversed my headphones (most, but not all, some -are- my ears). So it wasn't my ears. Yes, I agree with you, although I'm assuming that the highest quality playback setting gives a pretty accurate reproduction in terms of level and frequency. So I guess whatever ranges and fluctuations heard are due to the combination of headphones/speakers and ears. Get well soon! :)
Thank you!
Reversing the headphones was my suggestion as well :)
The dip around 8 kHz is normal when using the same power: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perceived_Human_Hearing.svg
15 kHz as an upper limit is still good for your age.
20 Hz - 16693 Hz.
AKG K 845BT
I just hooked my oscilloscope up to the DAC: The phase-difference between left and right is continuously shifting which adds some error to the spacial localization. Between 17 kHz and 20 kHz the amplitude linearly drops to zero. But I can't tell whether this is due to the audio source or my equipment.
20 Hz - 17192 Hz and now my brain hurts
Speaker or headphones?
headphones