Test your hearing

Ferno · Post by **Ferno** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:34 am

Now this is not an official occupational hearing test, nor is it a medical one. It's to see how quiet you can pick out the distortion at.

http://www.klippel.de/aura/default.html

I hit -24dB on average.

Tetrad · Post by **Tetrad** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:39 am

They sound nearly identical to me at -15 or so.

Lothar · Post by **Lothar** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:40 am

If you look at the stats here it seems the different tests have different averages.

I tended to get stuck at about -12 dB on the Music - Pop (6") setting.

Octave (6") I was able to get down to -24 dB before I really lost my ability to hear the distortion.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:59 am

Heh, I got stuck at -12 on Pop too. Gotta try the other ones.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:43 am

I guess I'm normal. At -18 I errored so -12 for me.

Will Robinson · Post by **Will Robinson** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 8:14 am

I failed at -24. I'm kind of shocked because my hearing is shot from years of very loud guitars, firearms without hearing protection and wind from motorcycling at high speeds.
Plus I have a constant ringing in my ears from all of the above.
So I'm a happy camper at -24 right now

Tricord · Post by **Tricord** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:02 am

I could tell till -36dB without guessing (everything correct), but can't tell them apart at -42dB. If I get it right at that level, it would be luck.

Trying other genres now.

WarAdvocat · Post by **WarAdvocat** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:26 am

I was able to distinguish to -21dB but it was iffy...

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:05 am

I passed -12 once, and failed out on it once... so -12 is just about my threshold.

XeonJr · Post by **XeonJr** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:07 pm

Part way thru the test the browsers stops reloading the sound files

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:36 pm

-30. If I retook it, now that I know what to listen for, I could probably get farther--there's just a couple spots in that pop song that you can definitely hear distortion in.

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:38 pm

-30 on Octave

Stryker · Post by **Stryker** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:21 pm

I did octave: -30 again.

Jon the Great · Post by **Jon the Great** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:50 pm

-12db
I missed it there like twice on pop I think I'll try the others though.