You have a good HiFi system but how good is your hearing ?

[Electro]

Here are some very well implemented hearing tests that test your hearing and how good you are at discerning tone, rhythm , pitch and music visual that are a lot of fun

( to me anyway :shifty: ) .

Give them a go and if you want to you could post your results . :silenced:

http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/

 

[Native_bon]

Nice test I must say. I got 86%. A bit disappionted. As a music producer I thought I would get World class score. Its not as easy as it seems.

 

[Electro]

I also got 86% on the tone-deaf test a few days ago.

Apparently between 80% and 90% is a very good score so don't feel so bad . I will do the other tests in a few days because my ears are bunged up with a cold so I will wait for my ears to pop before doing them .

 

[Native_bon]

Actually I did the frist test on my laptop. Think am going to use my studio setup, think i may just get a better result. ray:

 

[drummerman]

Mine actually plateaus out around 14khz!

Glad I can still hear the wolf whistles ...

regards

 

[Native_bon]

Just done Musical Visual Intelligence. Over all score 80%

Breaks dwn like this:

pitch discrimination:78.3%

Musical Memory:86.5%

Contour discrimination: 69.9%

Attention:77.4%

Musical/visual abstraction: 84.2%

Proud of myself. :dance:

 

[Overdose]

Here are some very well implemented hearing tests that test your hearing and how good you are at discerning tone, rhythm , pitch and music visual that are a lot of fun

( to me anyway :shifty: ) .

Give them a go and if you want to you could post your results . :silenced:

http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/

I get annual audiometric tests, my hearing is fine according to a medical professional.

 

[char_lotte]

Here are some very well implemented hearing tests that test your hearing and how good you are at discerning tone, rhythm , pitch and music visual that are a lot of fun

( to me anyway :shifty: ) .

Give them a go and if you want to you could post your results . :silenced:

http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/

I get annual audiometric tests, my hearing is fine according to a medical professional.

Ditto every twelve months with the potential for a random test within that period also.

Hearing has not been damaged in any way , proof that Cyrus is not as dangerous as some would have you believe..

 

[gregvet]

I get annual audiometric tests, my hearing is fine according to a medical professional.

Ditto every twelve months with the potential for a random test within that period also. Hearing has not been damaged in any way , proof that Cyrus is not as dangerous as some would have you believe..

If you dont mind me asking, what do you do that requires random hearing tests?

 

[char_lotte]

I get annual audiometric tests, my hearing is fine according to a medical professional.

Ditto every twelve months with the potential for a random test within that period also. Hearing has not been damaged in any way , proof that Cyrus is not as dangerous as some would have you believe..

If you dont mind me asking, what do you do that requires random hearing tests?

I'm in aviation. It's not a random hearing test, just part of the medical.

 

[gregvet]

I guessed it wasnt just a hearing test. Thanks for the explanation, makes more sense.

 

[Overdose]

Here are some very well implemented hearing tests that test your hearing and how good you are at discerning tone, rhythm , pitch and music visual that are a lot of fun

( to me anyway :shifty: ) .

Give them a go and if you want to you could post your results . :silenced:

http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/

I get annual audiometric tests, my hearing is fine according to a medical professional.

Ditto every twelve months with the potential for a random test within that period also. Hearing has not been damaged in any way , proof that Cyrus is not as dangerous as some would have you believe..

Depnds if it's the Miley type or not.

 

[andyjm]

Char_lotte and Overdose, given your recent tests, I have no doubt that your hearing is acceptable for your age, but like most things in life hearing deteriorates over time.

http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm

I am not rude enough to ask your age, but unless you are superman (or woman) it is likely that your hearing has declined along the graphs on the link above.

I have spent a longtime equalizing the response of my system and listening room using measurement mics and REW - give or take a few dB, it is flat to well over 22KHz - but I can't hear a damn thing over 14KHz (I am 50). The only beneficiaries are my teenage kids and the dog.

An interesting question for those who follow subjective reviews of equipment - should magazines publish the age of the reviewer so that the readers can make allowance for the fall-off in hearing?

For example, if the reviewer is over 30, it is very likely that he won't be able to hear the dreadful splashy HF at 18KHz from some ghastly piezo tweeter. But there again, since HiFi is not a hobby of the young, if the reviewer can't hear it, and the buyer can't hear it - does it matter?

 

[Deliriumbassist]

Char_lotte and Overdose, given your recent tests, I have no doubt that your hearing is acceptable for your age, but like most things in life hearing deteriorates over time.

http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm

I am not rude enough to ask your age, but unless you are superman (or woman) it is likely that your hearing has declined along the graphs on the link above.

I have spent a longtime equalizing the response of my system and listening room using measurement mics and REW - give or take a few dB, it is flat to well over 22KHz - but I can't hear a damn thing over 14KHz (I am 50). The only beneficiaries are my teenage kids and the dog.

An interesting question for those who follow subjective reviews of equipment - should magazines publish the age of the reviewer so that the readers can make allowance for the fall-off in hearing?

For example, if the reviewer is over 30, it is very likely that he won't be able to hear the dreadful splashy HF at 18KHz from some ghastly piezo tweeter. But there again, since HiFi is not a hobby of the young, if the reviewer can't hear it, and the buyer can't hear it - does it matter?

Problem is, the graphs are purely an average, and there's much more than age involved. As a personal example, I'm 24 years old, born without an eardrum in my right ear, had a failed myringoplasty that should have created an eardrum for me, and have spent the past 10 years standing in front of high wattage bass amplifiers (and loud drummers!). Everyone's hearing has it's own story. It'd make more sense to post a reviewer's hearing results chart I think! But even that would be a futile exercise for the aforementioned point and anecdote. All it does is just reinforce the well known fact about buying hifi- demo before you buy.

As an aside, I did the tone deaf test, and got 83%. Yay for mono listening! :rofl:

 

[Overdose]

Char_lotte and Overdose, given your recent tests, I have no doubt that your hearing is acceptable for your age, but like most things in life hearing deteriorates over time.

http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm

I am not rude enough to ask your age, but unless you are superman (or woman) it is likely that your hearing has declined along the graphs on the link above.

I have spent a longtime equalizing the response of my system and listening room using measurement mics and REW - give or take a few dB, it is flat to well over 22KHz - but I can't hear a damn thing over 14KHz (I am 50). The only beneficiaries are my teenage kids and the dog.

An interesting question for those who follow subjective reviews of equipment - should magazines publish the age of the reviewer so that the readers can make allowance for the fall-off in hearing?

For example, if the reviewer is over 30, it is very likely that he won't be able to hear the dreadful splashy HF at 18KHz from some ghastly piezo tweeter. But there again, since HiFi is not a hobby of the young, if the reviewer can't hear it, and the buyer can't hear it - does it matter?

My hearing tops out at 15.5 KHz approx.

Re. the subjective reviews. They are just that and have no relevance to the wider buying publics perception of the item on test, or its actual measured performance. Meaningful measurement would be a better way to go, although a favourable review obviously helps sales. Reviewers hearing charts would mean little beyond the fact that they could actually hear something.

I asked this question a long while back and not suprisingly, not many people had even had a test, never mind regular tests.

 

[Overdose]

Just done Musical Visual Intelligence. Over all score 80%

Breaks dwn like this:

pitch discrimination:78.3%

Musical Memory:86.5%

Contour discrimination: 69.9%

Attention:77.4%

Musical/visual abstraction: 84.2%

Proud of myself. :dance:

Over all 80% ?

Deleriumbassist did better with only one eardrum.

Some test. :roll:

 

[Covenanter]

They are interesting tests but aren't they measuring aural memory rather than hearing?

Chris

 

[char_lotte]

Char_lotte and Overdose, given your recent tests, I have no doubt that your hearing is acceptable for your age, but like most things in life hearing deteriorates over time.

http://www.roger-russell.com/hearing/hearing.htm

I am not rude enough to ask your age, but unless you are superman (or woman) it is likely that your hearing has declined along the graphs on the link above.

I have spent a longtime equalizing the response of my system and listening room using measurement mics and REW - give or take a few dB, it is flat to well over 22KHz - but I can't hear a damn thing over 14KHz (I am 50). The only beneficiaries are my teenage kids and the dog.

An interesting question for those who follow subjective reviews of equipment - should magazines publish the age of the reviewer so that the readers can make allowance for the fall-off in hearing?

For example, if the reviewer is over 30, it is very likely that he won't be able to hear the dreadful splashy HF at 18KHz from some ghastly piezo tweeter. But there again, since HiFi is not a hobby of the young, if the reviewer can't hear it, and the buyer can't hear it - does it matter?

Sorry, didn't mean to imply I had super duper hearing, just that it gets tested regularily and is ok.

A subjective review is just a subjective review and should be treated as such.....

 

[Native_bon]

Just done Musical Visual Intelligence. Over all score 80%

Breaks dwn like this:

pitch discrimination:78.3%

Musical Memory:86.5%

Contour discrimination: 69.9%

Attention:77.4%

Musical/visual abstraction: 84.2%

Proud of myself. :dance:

Over all 80% ?

Deleriumbassist did better with only one eardrum.

Some test. :roll:

Well you may need yours eyes tested cause thats a different test all together. :doh:

 

[gregvet]

Shame, had been meaning to have a go at this, and just sat down to do this now and the website is down.

Hopefully not permanently?

 

[SteveR750]

This, plus room variations is why hi fi is really a load of bollocks. It really is in the head, on the day, in your ears and all that. All the pseudo scientific debate is ultimately pointless, if just a bit a fun.

 

[Electro]

Shame, had been meaning to have a go at this, and just sat down to do this now and the website is down.

Hopefully not permanently?

Just to let everyone know that the Tonometric hearing test site is now back to normal so give it a go

http://tonometric.com/rhythmdeaf/