The Human Hearing Range

[dean84921]

i think my speakers just cut out at 17KHs, i can still hear 16 fine, and while some older members of my family cant hear it sooner, everyone, even my 8 year old cousin cant hear 17+. any advice on where to get good headphones?

[PANADAS321]

My mom 14

Me 20

[Nordfallen]

Well at 16 I could hear 20Khz because I use to use the dog whistle on my iphone to piss off the girls in class. I guess after working at the airport as a rampie, on the slack days not putting on the headphones with propeller turbines starting up and running i've lost my awesome hearing... lame

[mcpencil]

up to 16, age 23

[BigLeprichaun]

I'm 15 and I can hear from start to 18 khz...

[ismaeel619]

My Cousin (12) - 20KHz

Me(17) - 19KHz.

NOW THATS RESULTS! =D

[reveden]

25 and I can only hear up to 15khz =(

[znavnush]

@reveden i cant hear from 17 and im 14 :P 

[MoneySeekin1]

20hz-17khz here and im 16 :D

[ticktatwert]

20kHZ 

[acirak]

18kHz here

[Xacei]

I got to 17. o.o

[BaddaBigBoom]

For anyone who is (supposedly) young enough to hear most of this range and can't - please bear in mind it could be to do with frequency range limitations of your speakers/headphones.

[coolhaloboy360]

19KHz for me

[MidnightHorrors]

OMG! after 12 I cant hear anything and I'm 17 T_T!!

[Th3Gr33k]

I can hear to 18.6 (after doing this I got some software to test). 25, rode a motorbike constantly been to many gigs and festivals and wear headphones to listen music. Im amazed I can still hear this well!

[Ilamarea]

Shit... I can hear from 500 to 15k...

And I'am barelly.. OMG I'AM 20!!!

[jbennafir]

idk if i should watch this. i dont no how loud it is. im ten. i paused at ready im gunna watch now. o wow i heard all of them. but some were loudddd. 20 was hard to hear..... but i heard it! i heard it like for a few sec.

[BaddaBigBoom]

@jbennafir Well done - I hope you were ready with the volume button !



[jbennafir]

@BaddaBigBoom thanx how good did u do? and ya i wuz ready with the volume button. i always knew i wuz good at hearing and smelling cuz my eye sight is bad so i am better at hearing and smelling.

[BaddaBigBoom]

@jbennafir Well, I got to about 17khz - but I knew my limit already as I made this :-)

[jbennafir]

@BaddaBigBoom thats rlly good it started getting harder to hear around there. how old r u?

[BaddaBigBoom]

@jbennafir 48

[jbennafir]

@BaddaBigBoom thats pretty good! do u like harry potter? (srry if it seems rlly random but i like harry potter and i wuz watching harry potter in 99 seconds so i wuz thinking of it.)

[BaddaBigBoom]

@jbennafir LOL - I liked a couple of them (first one and Askaban) but I then I lost interest.

[jbennafir]

@BaddaBigBoom ok. i liked all of them. ya i dont get it. some people says the 1st book is so boring. my friend lost intrest reading harry potter on the 1st book. and i liked The Prisoner of Askaban too. i feel bad for sirius. :( something happens to him in the 5th book... now i feel bad for hedwig and NOW i am thinking of another book series. (the 39 clues) i feel bad for irene (i think thats her name i havnt red it in a while.)

[Anascup]

I can here every one of them and I'm a teenager. They are REALLY loud!

[RaggaDnB]

I can't hear anything above 14kHz and I'm 21 yrs old, I blame my friends for taking me out to nightclubs without earplugs.

[Avensadora]

20hertz was faint but I heard it.

[critterfreek82]

I couldn't detect anything from 18 up and I'm 28.

[TOMLPFANFORLIFE]

19khz

[cabomful]

WHAT ? ? CANT HEAR YOU ! ! WHAAAT ?

[Dastarlos]

19 khz

[GameReviewer234]

i cant hear anything past 16 khz and im 16

[gmingdude]

I heard from 200 - 19 khz

[muzeeka]

19hz and im over 25... thats great.... coz many tease that im deaf or something so that means they are wrong..... i just have a short attention span lol....

[pwalker1989]

13khz for me and im 21.. er25s here we go

[bllllood]

could not stand it for a hour and above* typo XD sorry for double post

[bllllood]

2k 3k 5k is the most "painful" to my ear.....but i dont get any side effect :D

14k and above dont "hurt" at all since nearly no noise

but seriously it dont rly hurt my ears but i dont think i could stand it for a hour and above :P

[gspaulsson]

I could faintly hear up to 17kHz and I'm 64. But then my tastes run to classical.

[BaddaBigBoom]

@gspaulsson Still, 17k at the age of 64 is pretty damn good, classical or otherwise - respect !

[RaggaDnB]

@gspaulsson Amazing bro! Great ears.

[Sofinetil]

$#*! I can't see anymore!

[DayBurnersJourney]

Is it bad if I could hear all of them? And even turn my speaker down to 1 by 18?

[Caleb5617]

My favorite is 60 Hz, it feels like somebody is massaging me ears :)

[TosiValhe]

Could hear clearly until 18khz. The 20 Hz was misleading due to a static noise which wasn't in that frequency.

[jm5390]

I could hear all the way to 15,000 Hz (15 kHz).

[Legoking45]

Im 16 and i can hear 16khz

[XCrazyKezX]

i cant hear past 15 khz.. is that a bad thing ?

[KapuistheAlphafemale]

man i had to turn the thing down that hurt

[BaddaBigBoom]

@KapuistheAlphafemale

You were warned ;-)

[natebham]

im 21 and i can hear up to 17

[Homik111]

OMG! 17KHz is paaainful!

[babiestav]

17 and 19 sound the same :/

[fleffi]

I'm 15 and I can just hear 14 kHz, is that terrible?

[BaddaBigBoom]

@fleffi I wouldn't worry - It's most likely to do with limitations on your setup (connection,/speakers/headphon­es etc)

[BaddaBigBoom]

@fleffi ...then again, I see you're in a metal/thrash band (?). I don't want to sound like an old fart but you need to take care of your hearing, when you do gigs/rehearse, do you use earplugs ? If not, you should - or damage could be permanent.

[fleffi]

@BaddaBigBoom You mean by protecting my ears I could increase my hearing again? Like my ears could "heal"?

[BaddaBigBoom]

@fleffi I'm not sure. You are still young and because of this I guess you could re-gain your high-end hearing.

I would do some research if I were you and definitely use ear plugs -especially if you get ringing in your ears after the music.

[Mateav9]

40 Hz- 18kHz

is that good for my age? (i'm 14)

[BaddaBigBoom]

@Mateav9 Yep - that's about right :-)

[roxy78978]

LOLL i cant hear 19 anymore, im 13 :)

[TheEchoInc]

lovin the basss

[warcraftaz]

17 was my last.

[hiperzone]

20hz-16hz i think.27 years old

[moefis]

8 KHZ above nothing

[masskiller545]

damn my hearing good i can hear from that 20hz to 19khz

[darkmachete]

17KHz and I'm 17. Probably pretty normal.

[moham7ad]

this really depends on the speakers or the headphones you use. i listened to this video 3 times. once with my DJ style headphones (sony) and i could only hear up to 19kHz. another time with in ear headphones (sony) and i heard the 20kHz note. then again with my laptop speakers and only got up to 19kHz.

[Chelssz]

I couldn't hear 16 KHz or below! at all :( i'm seventeen. i hope that's normal..

[SOM3RANDOMDUD3]

40-17

[Frindleis]

19KHZ and I'm 14.. But fucking Chirst, my ears hurt.

[tehnooblords]

200HZ-18KHZ

AND I AM 13 IS THAT REALLY BAD

[BaddaBigBoom]

@tehnooblords No, that's normal.

[MYtastePT]

i heard 19khz with speakers on max volume XP

[MrBoify]

My 12-years son hears 19 khz, it fells 20 khz

[brndnusin]

I made it all the way to the last one.. But shit if I don't have a headache now.

[moviemaker1004]

I heard something on 20, but the quality in youtube is well-known.

[TheDrHee]

i couldnt get past 16 :O

[BaddaBigBoom]

@TheDrHee Too much heavy metal ? ;-)

[TheDrHee]

@BaddaBigBoom BLACK METAL FTW MEN! :P

maybe, but I listenend again and I past 16, but i just cant hear 17..

but its not that, someone says something and i cant hear it besides the fast that hes speaking loudly :O

Im 13 years old..

[BaddaBigBoom]

@TheDrHee It's probably nothing to worry about. You could have a hearing test though, just for your own interest.

[moomgmh]

I can hear from 60Hz to 19KHz

[ki11an00b8]

i couldnt get past 18 khz

[djg0603]

Heard everything, but 20khz it was just barely as someone else pointed out

[bengregory777]

yes! im 29 and after years of walkmans, rock concerts and raves and i pods i can hear pretty much all of it!

[richardoyu]

I can hear up to 19 kHz just fine

for the 20kHz I can only hear a tiny spec but they rest of the humming is gone.

[awkwardaustralian]

It stopped at 15 for me... but then I could hear 19 for some reason ...

[REANIMATION980]

Odd. from 15khz -18khz I can't hear but at 19khz I can again.

[JessePrower]

I had to turn it up after 14k to hear the rest, barely that is.

[PopeAssassins]

i can here 19 but not 18 or 17 or 16 or 15

[shredforone]

@wut159 - you are deceived...you can't hear 19Khz in this recording...mostly because even in HQ, Youtube has cut off the frequencies above 16500hz. I know this cause I stripped the audio from the video and did a spectrum analysis.

[BaddaBigBoom]

I suspected this might be the case.

[dylanon3k]

@shredforone yeah i was wondering why I couldnt hear anything higher than that since I'm only 14 and should be able to hear the mosquito but i heard everything from 20 - around 15000

[Texan102]

i could hear 15Khz but nothing above that... but my head hurts now o,o

[Texan102]

@Texan102 turned it to HQ and I could hear the start of 18 and 19 and i could hear the full 17....

[mrtyles]

when I turned up the volume I could hear 18 khz.

[mrtyles]

i can only hear up to 14khz . I'm 22. But I can still hear it when my TV is on and the volume's turned down.

[kakke69]

I can hear 12k but after I only feel it. Its strange. But remember. There's variation between speakers. Many speakers don't go above 12k much

[Hatchwork]

I could hear 16, and barely 17 BARELY and then I couldn't hear anything.

[KAMPACX264]

I could hear 10 khz and it fucking hurt my ears and from 14 khz nothing

[aubergine2c]

I'll be 48 in May and I'm a  musician. My range is 50 hz to about 14 kHz. I felt vibrations in my head at 16 kHz -18 kHz. After that, nothing.

[DancesThroughLife]

I'm fifteen and I can just BARELY hear 14KHz. With my ear next to the speaker. That's just so wrong... I feel kind of shortchanged hearing wise, haha!

[BaddaBigBoom]

It could be to do with your equipment - try again with a decent pair of headphones (but be careful with the volume control).

[pwalker1989]

@DancesThroughLife not the best but you should be fine aslong as you dont stand in front of speakers anything above 10khz is there to be lost with good times

[dezziemac17]

the highest i can hear is 14 khz

[kingy771]

70 hz to 15 khz sorry

[kingy771]

i hear 50hz to to 15khz

[iCoreMovies]

I could hear 20 KHz.

[BaddaBigBoom]

Yup..that's normal :-)

[ILoveFred10113]

i'm 13 and I can only hear from 200 to 11

[BaddaBigBoom]

It might be to do with the limits of your speakers.

Try it with headphones (but be careful with the volume).

[HiDavidandGoliath]

19, 17 yrs old

[clarotungul]

i could still hear up to 20

[iRoxC]

17-18 kHz

[ItzH4X0R]

I lost it at 18kHz.

!5 years old.

[marfg12345]

hahaha

[fireOntheFace]

I can hear sound frequency up to 22kHz

19 year old

[xsCrApPybXx]

i can only hear til10khz, once it went to 14khz i couldn't hear legetimately but i do hear super high pitch sound cuz i feel my eardrum still vibrating.

[BaddaBigBoom]

It might be your audio setup -try again with a good quality pair of headphones (but be careful with the volume).

[N30tonicDragon3]

14kHz

[NausicaaRaine]

19!

[TheElectricDreamer93]

It stopped at 14 for me. Weird, and I'm 16. On one of these I could hear up to 19.5 and to 1hz

[komododragon2007]

i could hear them all

[FELIX5000000]

200 - 14k

[newtonmeters]

I gotta stop listening to loud music....

20hz - 17khz

[jtforums]

Heard all of it.

Heh!

[runeviper]

19khz :)

[absolvscharizard]

I'm able to hear 19 kHz

[Saucification]

15- and up to 17khz

i think it may be due to speaker quality though

[silverwingedwitch]

I'm 19 and I couldn't hear it after it passed 17. Wow haha.

[BlueDragon20012000]

19 dudes

[shangbang94]

heard it up to 17

[avenueq14]

17 baby!

[andyg256]

wait I just heard up to 17khz

[andyg256]

everything up to 14khz. I`m 28 and was born with a fair bit of hearing loss in my left ear.. And I go to way too many concerts lol

[Kpipitone]

the problem with this test is that your limited to what your speakers can play as well. so you might not be as deaf as you think you are =P

[KiranGlitch]

put this video on your phone and listen to it on your phone with earphones - you will be able to hear more!

[i3luv3noodles]

I hear it up to 19 o.o

[Airfresh0]

i can hear up till 15 and im 16 years old.

[Nazieatingchild]

I'm 14 and I hear them all, but 20 khz was very difficult to hear.

[KiranGlitch]

i heard till 16 KHz

[SKYLINE12345671]

snap :P

[gadgetfinder4u]

500hz to 18khz

[KiranGlitch]

they are not the right frequencies

the top half seemed to suddenly produce no sound and i am 15

[BaddaBigBoom]

It might be how your computer is set up...I lose it at 17 khz on my comp (and I'm 46!)

[tenshichanyo]

Cannot hear 19 and 20.

[SoraKurosu0]

I'm 13 byw

[SoraKurosu0]

Apparetly, I can hear everything below 20 kHz

[makemebad1545]

i hear them all im scared becase i hear dog wisils that no one can hear

[BaddaBigBoom]

That's an advantage -enjoy it while it lasts :-) Set a ringtone on your cellphone at this frequency...you'll hear it and no one else will -yay!

[101DaysofFun]

heard 15 but not 16

[TamashiiKitara123]

I was able to hear 15 faint but 16 was dead

[onfire340]

i got to 20

[lidltomat]

kids can hear lower frequencys than asults,some companys have developed special ringtones that only kids can hear(ca 17hz)

[chris97220]

Can hear everything but 15 and 16...

[NathanLee0921]

I can't hear anything starting from 15khz. Is there anything wrong with me? I mean I can still hear the mosquito ring tone from my friends cellphone. I mean, I'm still young right????

[L00peey]

hahhaahahah

[jessekarate08]

wow im supprised i could here that with my homemade speakers

[lllooozzzaaannnooo16]

i heard it and im deaf

[r0xdab0x96]

this reminds me

is it natural to feel x-rays going through you?

[gsgssgdgdgsd]

30hz-16Khz

[chips909]

i could hear all of it =[)

[silverbakuk]

Um with the type lossy compression such that as YouTube uses, anything above 19khz is not actually stored in the video!

[Jaiboiz]

With the &fmt=18 added i could hear up to 20... O well haha.. but it appears no one got up to 20... maybe there's something wrong... But anyways thanks heaps for the upload... as a pilot i need to check on these things! :)

[aidanator]

WOW, the deep notes sound EPICALLY cool on my sub woofer! :D

[pedazodecola]

something obviously isnt right here cause i could hear 15 or 16 but i could hear 17,18,19, and 20

[CrazyMofo2468]

I had headphones on with the volume low, but when it got to 14 i coulndt hear anything, so i cranked it to max volume and then i could hear 19 but not 20:(

[BaddaBigBoom]

did you do the old &fmt=18 bit ? You won't hear beyond 14khz if you don't.

[CrazyMofo2468]

Yeah i tried it just now, i could hear them all

the last 3 were really hard to hear, i could still feel them though

[splashack]

lol I stop to ear at 14 KHz

[BaddaBigBoom]

did you add &fmt=18 to the URL and hit 'enter'? If not, try it and start again !

[NoCussingClub]

I found your video on nbc chicago . com

[gtracerh]

with headphones on: I could hear up to 14khz clearly. 15 & 16 khz were inaudible. then 17-19khz i could barely hear. then nothing for 20khz.

through speakers:  I only heard up to 14khz..then nothing