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Reply #175 –
Quote from: krabapple on
Oh, and BTW, the ABX part of the website doesn't seem to work -- it won't return my 'scores'.  Anyone else seeing that?  I'm using Firefox.

Same thing here. I was going to try IE but got distracted ...

My hearing cuts off between 17-17.5kHz. The modulated 17.4kHz mosquito tone was easy to hear.
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Reply #176 –
Quote from: krabapple on
Still, for my future I wonder about the state of hearing-aid technology -- is it good enough to 'restore' extended high-frequency hearing , or does it focus on just the 'vocal' midrange?

One of the absolute state-of-the-art hearing aids today only amplifies to 7kHz (Phonak Exelia CIC).
In Canada this retails for $3700.

Nothing well ever "restore' your hearing.

And if your hearing is bad enough (esp if you worked in noise/gunfire) no amount of gain will help as you develop "dead" spots in your cochlea. Amplifing these dead spots results in the neighboring hair cells distorting. Just imagine what this does to your perception of hearing.

Once its gone people, its gone for good.

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Reply #177 –
18k, 37 years old.

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Reply #178 –
Quote from: dandomoore on
18khz. I'm 37. So pleased after abusing my ears for years


OK, 18kHz and 31 (with Sennheiser HD 202). Not too bad considering that because of my work I have to spend quite a lot of time in stamping factory and near the deburring machines + plus I visit rather often rock-contserts, clubs and live-music pubs... 

But my girlfriend (2 years younger) can check in only at 14...15 kHz 
And she haven't experienced nearly that hostile working conditions.

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Reply #179 –
Quote from: krabapple on
Oh, and BTW, the ABX part of the website doesn't seem to work -- it won't return my 'scores'.  Anyone else seeing that?  I'm using Firefox.


I checked the ABX scoring script and found the bug    Now corrected...  Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for the checking!

Our blind test page (is properly working again) : http://www.audiocheck.net/blindtests_index.php

S.

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Reply #180 –
Quote from: JRace on
One of the absolute state-of-the-art hearing aids today only amplifies to 7kHz (Phonak Exelia CIC).
In Canada this retails for $3700.

AFAIK hearing aids are aimed at making human speech intelligible, so they only bother with mid range frequencies.

Recently had my hearing tested, and the audiologist was only interested in the average loss between 1-8kHz. I got -11dB & -17dB, which is apparently within reasonable bounds for my age.  -25dB is the hearing aid threshold, I'm told.

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Reply #181 –
16 kHz out of my PowerBook's headphone jack on a pair of SR-60s.  I'm 25.

I tried with my Shure E2Cs and only got 14 kHz.