Alright, /k/ommandos, time for your first annual eeeeeeeeeee test. Please tell me if you notice any particular drops in volume as you slide the bar. Report back here with the hertz range(s) that you find most difficult to hear.
http://plasticity.szynalski.com/tone-generator.htm
The purpose of this test is to determine if those of our ilk have a propensity to lose hearing in certain ranges based upon their favored calibers, or certain scenarios you may remember when you neglected to protect your only always-on, 360 degree sense.
Please include with your report what caliber was being fired during your most memorable acquisition of eeeeeeeeeeeeee.
(Other context appreciated but not necessary. Additionally, please let us know the highest frequency you are able to detect.)
>>29980855
>time for your first annual
>first annual
It cannot be an annual event if it the first time.
>>29980855
20hz to right around 16,000
is that normal?
>>29980895
It is normal that as you age it becomes more and more difficult to detect higher frequencies. I'm 28 and have difficulty detecting above 18,000 hz (with both ears on, oddly it's lower for each individual ear). I also notice a distinct drop in volume at the 5,500 hz and 9,500 hz ranges.
>>29980855
30hz to roughly 17khz. I can still hear a faint buzz around 17,400~
Though my cheap headphones might be limited as well.
>>29980895
Most adults can't hear higher than 17khz, you're not out of the ordinary. Usually the younger you are the better your ears are at picking up higher frequencies.
18,500 or so is when i lost it, im 23 btw
Pretty sharp roll off at 150 and 13k.
>>29980962
Anyone else noticing drops in volume at particular ranges though they can hear better both above and below that range?
>>29980855
I stopped hearing it at 15,300hz.
I always wear ear pro, last time was 30 rounds of 7.62x54r.
9500-11000 HZ was quiet for me, then picked back up after
Would headphones affect this?
I could hear the entire spectrum. 1 was a very faint pounding and the max end was still ear piercing
>>29981050
Yes. You can only hear frequency ranges that your headphones are able to produce accurately.
>>29980940
>>29981008
This is the OP, here's my results as an example:
>distinct drop in volume between 5,440 and 5,550
>distinct drop in volume between 9,400 and 9,500
>right ear seems most affected in both situations, probably due to lifting off my ear pro while getting a cheek weld with a .308.
>lowest: 4hz
>highest: 18,000
I can barely hear 19hz all the way to 20,154hz.
I take it that's good. What do I win?
>>29980855
I could hear it from 1 to 20,154 but then again im not exactly the most traveled person.
>>29981050
>>29981066
OP here, I have decent headphones with a tendency to favor bass. I'm going to try with an earbud type and see if I can hear higher.
Drops in volume around 9.2k, 4.4k, 150, and 115 hertz.
>>29980855
18hz to 17000
20yo
>>29981088
proof that you are underaged b&
>>29981094
If you could hear that well then you're a god among men in terms of your aural abilities.
I can get to just under 20k and then it's gone. Everything else is fine.
21 years old, no tinnitus.
>>29981066
Yeah I was mostly asking if you could have too good of headphones that let you hear what you normally couldn't
I have a fucking headache from the 20154 and I assume that's not normal for normal people. I don't have bad hearing but I don't have fucking sonar.
>>29981119
I swear at 1hz i could hear like a siren sound if i listened hard enough.
>>29981106
Also noted that I can hear what seems to be a frequency to 18hz, but below that it almost sounds like I'm just hearing my speakers moving.
Below 9hz I cant hear anything tho.
>>29981129
Some audio frequencies can give you a headache even if your ears aren't detecting sounds, which does seem a bit weird.
>>29981107
nvm miss read the instructions. If I have the volume higher I can hear above 16,000 hz. If I have the volume the same across all ranges it tapers off.
:(
>>29980895
I'm the same.
20hz to 16,000, then it drops off completely.
>>29981146
I did hear it, it blew my damn eardrums out
>>29981154
25 year old with a history of heavy metal and ear phones.
>>29981067
>>29981100
So with my earbud type headphones I stopped being able to hear around the 16,000 range, but also noticed an aberration above 20,000 where the tone actually became lower and audible again. Interestingly, the fade out areas i noticed in my good headphones seemed to not happen, but I'm guessing that could be because the sound is dirtier/less "focused" with the cheap buds.
>>29980855
First eeeeeeeeeexperience was with a firecracker with a bad fuse. Tried throwing it way out into a pond and it exploded right as it went past my ear on release.
Next would be a .357 fired in a covered outdoor range. Forgot ear pro like a dumbass. Other than than nothing else.
Can hear 35hz to 16,337hz at moderate volume.
With headphones 3 to 18k.
With speakers 25 to 18k.
>>29981188
never throw explodey shit overhand
>best is side throw like slinging rocks on a pond
noticeable drop between 600-700 and again between 700-800.
Overall I can hear from about 80 to 15k. I could probably hear more bass if I used headphones.
20hz to 18,000
seems pretty good for me
There might be a dip in my right ear at 9000 or so, but it seems I can hear everything else just fine. As far as I know though, I don't have tinnitus.
>>29980855
I am 31, and hear from about 200 to 14500
I shoot .308 and .45, but I use earpro obsessively.
Thing is, I need to preserve what hearing I have left, since my life so far has already dicked it up a fair bit.
>SCUBA
>Worked in a mine
>Worked in an industrial setting (made missile guidance systems, pretty damn /k/ if you ask me)
>always enjoyed very loud music.
So while I am not surprised that my hearing is pretty bad, I am surprised by the extent. Seriously guys? 30-18000? Jesus damn, man.
17hz-18100hz
19yo
>>29981303
literally learned that the hard way.
>>29981147
Nice save
>>29980855
I get a sharp drop-off in volume over 12khz but I can still hear something all the way to about 17khz. On the lkow end the volume seems to drop off below 40hz.
>>29981647
age?
20 to 16,792hz
Small reduction in volume around the 3,144 to 3,152hz
21 y/o
Primarily 5.56, .308, and 9mm
Using Howard leight Impact Sport earmuffs, occasionally also with plugs when shooting the .308
>>29981737
fug got my units wrong
>>29980855
Age : 34
My normal volume for WoW / Light Music is 24 hz to 16k hz
If I increase the volume to louder than I would normally listen to stuff about 10 hz to 18.5k hz
>>29980893
There is nothing wrong with first annual. The idea that it's 'wrong' is total bullshit.
>>29980855
no drops in volume but I can't hear jack shit below 200hz or above ~14500 because thats pretty much right on the octave pair of the tinnitus noise in my right ear. can't hear the mosquito ringtone below 16khz because my tinnitus is too fucking loud
>tfw only 22
>tfw you have/had great hearing
but I'm using laptop speakers that's max volume is like 10% of earbuds/speakers (which is probably why i have tinnitus)
at what volume do i do this test?
>>29980855
Volume drops dramatically for me from about 200 to about 260 Hz. That's the only valley, otherwise I can hear from 50 to 15,300Hz.
I did a lot of upland game hunting with a 12 gauge loaded with birdshot. I've shot all major calibers my entire life, but at early ages the accepted earpro was to chew on a wad of paper towel and stuff it in your ears. This may have incurred some degradation. But the only real eeeeeeeeee I can recall was when we took a bunch of guns upstate, forgot to pack earpro, and ole dad insisted that .30-cal carbine wasn't that loud, to shut the fuck up and stop bellyaching. I probably shot it two dozen times (while seriously not wanting to, I was like 12, and it hurt like hell).
>>29981938
I should specify that I'm 36, and a decade of running a cement mixer and riding motorcycles might dilute my data.
18 to 17,400
20, no drops that I can tell. Been around a few rounds of 9 without ear pro, and a few .223 shots at an indoor range while i was scratching my ear.
>>29980895
same.
although some of the frequencies in the 10k range were painful if i left them on for a while.
>how I got the EEEEEE
retarded fudd uncle with a 30-06 who took a potshot at a deer, i had no earpro and was right next to him
>>29980855
all it does is make me itchy
~3 to 18000, significant dips in volume around 1400-1600 though, sounds like a valley if I slide back and forth. took my plugs out because I was a retarded 12 year old as 223 went off near me, never really noticed eeeeeeeeee besides first couple hours after
15 - 15,500 is my total range
I'm 28 and went to a lot of metal shows without ear protection, but never at the range
>>29981912
uniform volume. some fucks are shaking windows out of their panes with their gamestations sound system while others are using integral speakers with different results.
>>29980855
16,215 Hz
thats my upper limit.
so thats not too bad.
ive fired 12g for four years pretty often now, only using disposable earplugs.
if its quiet i can hear the slightest eeeee.
like an /r9k/ user a kilometer away.
>>29981998
I am so thankful now that I never shot a deer when I was out hunting with my Dad years ago. No ear pro+12 gauge slugs= eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Started to get softer at 15,000, I could still hear it faintly up to 17,000, I got to level 7 in the pitch differences test with no wrongs but got bored and stopped.
From 6 to 20k. I lose a lot of the volume in my left ear towards the higher ranges
>>29980855
about 20-15000
on a suckier note, i have very mild tintinitus thats started in my right ear. just started, like a few weeks ago.
about 15 to 15,200
I'm 21 and that doesn't seem normal for some reason
>>29982538
forgot my age, im 29
25yo, have tinnitus
No prob with the bass sounds; can hear from 1 Hz to a little over 17,500Hz, at which point the sound is fucking painful. I have a weeeeird drop of volume around 5k to 5,800/6k.
Always wore ear pro... except when clubbing, fucking around with fireworks and in rock concerts. Biggest eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee came from that time my cousin and I learned how not to handle explosives
>>29980855
20Hz to 18000Hz
I'm 18
Last time I didn't have ear pro was 3 rounds of 12 ga. That made my ears ring for a long time
18 years old
Always doubled up
Can hear to 15k
I have medium tinnitus in both ears...
Am I going to go deaf? My mom has 2 cochlear implants after she went deaf around my age. The doctors say I'm fine, but....
>>29980855
Hearing range 27-20000 I can hear above it but it sounds like the random ringing I get in my ears all the time. I've dealt with it since I was a kid. I have to turn the volume up to hear the stuff at the end.
Right ear is most affected by tone drops
2300-3000 is lightly dropped by my right ear. Barely noticeable.
20 YO
Just became a funz owner around 3 months ago. 5.56mm and 9mm.
Had a wireless mono-phone headset from the ages of 15-19, did a lot of gaming.
When people speak into my right ear I have a harder time understanding them, especially when my ears start ringing for no reason.
Either I fugged my ears as a kid or its my sinuses. (allergies)
40hz to 18khz. Lots of shotgun and snubby .38 without ear pro
Audiologist here. Ask me anything.
>>29983207
Whats the healthy range to hear through?
Any way to unfuck the ears?
Any way to retrain listening?
>>29983272
Normal human hearing range is 20-20000 Hz. However, there is a sudden drop in hearing thresholds in the ultra low and ultra high Fz range. In terms of the hearing test, we typically look at 250-8000 Hz, which are pretty important for speech understanding.
No way to unfuck ears -- just protect your shit better in the future. That, or shell out $2000-6000 for some hearing aids.
There are some aural rehab programs you can use , like LACE, but they are generally meant for people with hearing aids and cochlear implants.
>>29983207
>Ask me anything.
Why aren't hearing aids more comfortable? I could never fucking stand mine.
>Here, jam this microphone dick in your earhole and get used to it
Past 17k I hear nothing.
>>29983362
Three things:
1) Acoustics. Some of the acoustic options available are dependent upon your hearing loss. Some of the more comfortable options (custom molded) are not appropriate for people with good low Fz thresholds. The sound quality is the first priority.
2. Materials. Have to strike a balance of durability and comfort. The industry has gone the way of durability (less cost over time, higher intrinsic value of the device, etc.). They made this decision because...
3. Most people can handle the hearing aids in their current form with little to no discomfort. You either are an outlier, or your audiologist was shit and didn't work with you to make them more comfortable.
How long has it been since you tried hearing aids? A lot has changed in the past 6-8 years.
27 low and 17383 high. Is that good?
age 26
25-17831
hear a slight dip in volume around 1400 then it goes back to normal. dips again at 13000 and goes back to normal. silence at 17831
I shoot 5.56, .30-06, .22lr, and 7.62x51
go to the range almost every other week.
Can't remember but id hazard a guess, 5.56 was my first firearm eeeeee inducing event. before that it was HS homecoming, didn't notice the eeeee till i got home.
>audio equipment
grado sr80i
20hz-20khz
Impedance 32ohm
sensitivity 98db
Realtek HD Audio (on-board sound card.)
>>29981129
20-20000 is undamaged average human hearing, despite few having this
>>29980855
Most headphones and speakers cant go below or above human spectrum, and many have cut offs, unless you have really nice gear, you are hallucinating most of the sounds, check your specs on your soundgear
My headphones go from 20hz to 20khz
Meanwhile i could hear 1hz to 20154, despite my headphones not being able to do this, 2k 4k and 12k is when it has huge fucking jumps in volume, tapering off at 19k despite being very clearly audible until 20, where it just became a high pitched whir, my phones probably supplied me up until 20100, because that is when i started to question whether or not i could still hear it because high pitched tones cause temporary ear ringing at super high pitches
Very light tinnitus, visual snow, and a 1/4 chance to be able to hear a good amount above human averages.
Don't get envious though, im literally half blind, and have allergies bad enough that i almost got hospitalized for an upper respitory infection once, and get atleast one per year.
Age 20
8-19004
I feel like I could hear more with better headphones
>>29983595
UPDATE, I can hear it very faintly at 20,154 after turning everything in my house off
>>29980855
I can hear 1-20000, but Ifeel like I'm going to puke after 18500.
>>29983405
>How long has it been since you tried hearing aids? A lot has changed in the past 6-8 years.
Uhhh... 12 years ago.
Wanna know the cool part? No one caught my hearing loss until I was like 17. They said my body and brain had all but adapted to it.
>>29980855
I can hear it at absolutely every level.
I'm 24 years old, and I shoot guns without ear pro all the time.
I've put around 120 rounds through an M4 without earpro, and just last week, I took mine off while pistol shooting at an indoor range.
>tfw I also have 20/10 vision and am 6'5"
>>29980855
15hz to 17 500hz
That good? I'm 20 been shooting since 15.
>>29980855
>FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUKKKKKK
Hit 16,600 and suddenly felt my stomach churn like a mo-fo.
I could detect from 4 hz to 17,700 or so.
>>29980893
First anual means it starts now and will repeat every year
26 to 17,000
18
>>29984140
Now this is shitposting.
A better test wouldn't allow you to choose when the tone played, and wouldn't have an obvious "tone is playing now" distortion at the beginning
>>29984194
>brown noise detected
>>29980893
Are you retarded?
>>29980855
2hz and 19307hz
at 19 years old
>>29985075
click slider and hold.
close eyes and drag mouse to the right till you can hear anything. do the same dragging left.
take note.
