The "Getting Old" Sound

[Ben]

We have several generations here today, and got to talking about getting old and hearing and that "mosquito sound" all the kids use. We found this Youtube video with sounds people are able to here in their 20's through 50's and over. After the oilfields, shooting, and airplanes, I was totally shocked that I could pick up the 12khz "under 50" sound at 54. Some of the younger folks were kind of perturbed that they could no longer hear the "under 30" sound. That's me spreading Christmas joy.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXhRmv1mrs4

[Lee]

I'm not sure I'm hearing what I am supposed to be hearing, but I hear all them to a degree. I'm in my fifties.

[RoadKingLarry]

I could hear the 12Khz but not the other 2. I'm 51-ish.

The one small consolation I have when I hear young idjits playing their "music" at a stupid volume is the knowledge that they will likely be deaf as a post when they get my age.

[BobR]

I couldn't hear a thing, other than the constant tinnitus that is my buddy!!! 

bob

[Ben]

Apparently your computer audio and speakers can affect the test. At least this one, which doesn't look to be too scientific. :)

[Tallpine]

I must be over 14.

Doesn't mean that I act or think that way 

[vaskidmark]

I heard the 8Hz tone that said my computer was working.  Other than that, all I could hear were the "pops" between where I guess the tones were.

Well, that and the tinnitus.

And yet those young whippersnappers today call music does annoy the bejabbers out of me.  Strange, considering I can't hear it, no?

stay safe.

[Monkeyleg]

I could hear the 12 hz. Surprising, considering that most of the little bone that conducts sound in my left ear is gone.

[230RN]

Not a great audio system, did not hear any of them.

Tell you what, though....

One day I discovered I couldn't hear the little beep when I used the diode checker on a DMM.  

Like: "Holy crap!  These diodes can't all be bad!"

I had to recover the three I'd already thrown in the trash and re-check them with the ohms scale.

Same thing with the continuity checker beepy thingy.

Terry, 230RN

[Hawkmoon]

Apparently your computer audio and speakers can affect the test. At least this one, which doesn't look to be too scientific. :)

To hear anything other than the opening and closing clicks, I had to turn the volume on my computer all the way up, and THEN manually crank up the volume on my speakers. Once I did that, I could hear all except the "under 24" sound.

I'm nearly 70.

Here's one that's a little better, but it still doesn't provide any system calibration prior to doing the test, and I had to crank my speakers way up manually to even hear the 8 MHz reference tone.

http://www.noiseaddicts.com/2009/03/can-you-hear-this-hearing-test/

[Ron]

Couldn't hear anything above the 15hz in either test. 

[230RN]

Couldn't hear anything above the 15hz in either test. 

Do you mean "below?"

[Tallpine]

I heard all but the last one, so I can't figure out why my hearing is so bad in real life.   

Maybe other people really don't talk clearly anymore 

[fifth_column]

From the thread title I thought you were referring to those noises I make more and more frequently the older I get.  You know, those "old man" noises; groaning, popping, grunting . . . and that's just while getting off the couch!   

[vaskidmark]

From the thread title I thought you were referring to those noises I make more and more frequently the older I get.  You know, those "old man" noises; groaning, popping, grunting . . . and that's just while getting off  on the couch!   

Any change of direction is accompanied by a symphony of sounds that the human body probably should never make.  Attempting to overcomer gravity is even moreso.

If I had known I was going to live this long I would have started hoarding painkillers a lot sooner.

stay safe.

[41magsnub]

36 and I couldn't hear anything above 12.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

36 and I couldn't hear anything above 12.

me too

54   high mileage

[cambeul41]

72 and I couldn't hear anything above 12 — except for the tinnitus, which always comes in clear  .

[Ben]

54   high mileage

 

Sometimes that's how I feel.

[MillCreek]

Turning 54 in two weeks, ridden hard and put away wet.

Although this test did not work for me: I have had a bilateral hearing loss since birth, especially in the higher frequencies.

[Ben]

Turning 54 in two weeks, ridden hard and put away wet.

I just turned last week. For some reason, this is the first year I've actually started considering myself "old(er)". Maybe because 2014 is the year I turn 55 and no longer have a penalty for 401K withdrawls. 

Though I was considering some sort of retribution when AARP started sending me propaganda at 50. 

[Tallpine]

All you fifty-something youngsters 

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

power tools took my hearing more than things that go bang

[Tallpine]

power tools took my hearing more than things that go bang

Stihl 045 and D-2 Cat diesel.

[41magsnub]

Stihl 045 and D-2 Cat diesel.

Lots of .50 cal, C4, MCLIC's, and other exceptionally loud Army stuff with just crappy ear plugs (if even those).