Test your hearing range! A series of pure sinewave test tones covering the audio spectrum from 20 Hz to 22 KHz, each preceded by a vocal announcement giving the frequency of the following tone. Tones created in Cool Edit Pro. PLEASE:- 1) Download the file, don't try the test using the Freesound preview. 2) You need a decent quality sound card/interface or you may well be hearing false sub-harmonics at the top end of the test.

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  dobroide 6 years, 10 months ago

  M idea was that you could tell age directly from hearing range... Not so, some googling and it seems ther is plenty of variation within age groups:
  http://www.ochenk.com/entry.php?id=63

  BTW, mine is bad for my age, just 11 KHz at 47 yr... definitely handicaped and going deaf!
  
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  sagosen 6 years, 10 months ago

  I stop at 16 KHZ, can't hear a thing afterwards. :)
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  acclivity 6 years, 10 months ago

  I can hear to 11 KHz, with the volume wound well up. On a low-fi m/b sound interface, I hear erroneous sub-harmomics from around 14 KHz up. Using my Edirol UA-1ex USB sound interface, there is (for me) absolute silence from 12 KHz up (just a glitch when the tone ends). So it's a useful test of the quality of the sound interface, too. I'm using HD-25 headphones in both cases.
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  AniCator 6 years, 10 months ago

  Great Test! I can hear only until 14 KHZ :(! The rest is an ambient beep for me, I hear it but I can't say I hear a high noise, I only notice something is beeping in my ear:P!