Mosquito Noise - Can You Hear It?

[supermousie]

Re: Mosquito Noise - Can You Hear It?

Couldn't hear anything over 16khz, and I thought gj hearing, rip, but now I think it has more to do with the frequency response of my earphones, because I remember hearing up to 21-22khz when I tried this last year.

I'll hook up a sound system and give it another go later.

[pikakirby123]

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Wow, I could barely hear 17 and 17.4 khz. Then 18 and 19 were really easy to hear and I could hear 22 as well. Yay!

[Cavernio]

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I heard up to 16khz and I'm 16 years old (closing in on 17).
All those years in band really have damaged my ears.
*checks Volume Mixer*
Oh, my sound card just sucks. It can't play 17khz or higher.

Boo, how do I check this?

[[TeRa]]

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I was always skeptical about sound waves on youtube. Considering files get converted when you upload how can you be sure the frequency is the same once uploaded (idk I'm just hypothesizing.. I should look into this more, I imagine someone already proved me right/wrong).
I've thought this since I learned about binaural beats (which I've been very interested in since), however I've always wanted to be sure I'm hearing exactly what I'm meant to rather than some distortion, which could essentially yield a completely different result, if any result at all (aside from placebo xd).

Anyways I could hear up to 16 very clearly, could definitely hear both 17 and 17.4 faintly, after that I had to turn my speakers up, and at that point how can I be sure it's not just my head/speakers messing with me. I'm fairly sure headphones would help out but w.e I can hear and that's really all I care about for now.

[Sprite-]

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Could hear 19 completely fine, but nothing at 19.5
probably my sound card

[Cavernio]

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the 21 and 22 are crystal clear to me although 16 was a little hard to hear and 20 was inaudible, idk how that works exactly

Selective hearing loss for only some pitches is common. If you wanna know how it all works, in a very basic sense, as soon as your eardrum vibrates, the only cells that should react will be the ones for that specific frequency.
There's a thin membrane inside the cochlea that essentially makes waves when you hear sound. The apex of the wave changes depending on the pitch of the sound, and this shift in the tympanic membrane causes cells that are (IIRC) surrounding the tympanic membrane to activate. I'd assume your 16khz cells are damaged or something.