On 8/31/2011 4:26 PM, Ed Nisley wrote:
On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 14:52 -0400, Joseph Apuzzo wrote:
but both headphones have a wider frequency range
Pure, raw, unadulterated specsmanship!
For a quick test, go to (for example) ...
http://www.audiocheck.net/
Thanks -- this is a really good resource.
... to determine whether you can hear the test tones. If you can't, then
any further tests won't be useful. The descending tone from 22 kHz to 12
kHz should be revealing.
Some years ago a virus ate my hearing down from the high teens to 3 kHz
in one fell swoop. For *sure* I'm not going to be hearing any difference
between those headphones and, say, an old landline phone... [sigh]
Long ago I remember being horribly annoyed by the 18 kHz tone that tube
TV sets made -- a TV set in another room would keep me awake at night.
These days somehow it doesn't bother me -- now I see why. After
listening to the 22 kHz - 12 kHz tone I see that I can't hear anything
above 16 kHz. However on the low end, strangely I was able to hear the
test even down at 10 Hz. ? Weird. I'll have to duplicate the test
with a couple of other sets of speakers to verify that these headphones
I'm using actually transduce audio at > 16 kHz.
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