Ken wrote:
On 8 Aug 2007 02:39:17 GMT, "Arny Krueger" wrote:
The highest critical band of the human ear covers the range of
something like 15 to 20 KHz (this varies with the listener -
younger, and smaller people shift this a bit higher).
I could hear up to 24 kHz when I was 35 years old.
Now at 53 years it's at least 20 kHz.
I don't know the exact limit for now.
test your hearing up to 16 kHz
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/hearing.html
or past 20 kHz
http://ff123.net/sweep.html
or for harmonics 14 kHz
http://ff123.net/hearing2.html
or brickwall filters at several frequencies
http://ff123.net/mustang.html
test your ability to hear differences in musical samples
http://www.jakemandell.com/tonedeaf/
in all cases, mileage may vary due to selection of headphones and soundcards
and listening environment, as well as physiology.
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-S
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