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I can’t believe my ears !
Subjective
• Loudness• Pitch• Tone quality
Objective
• Amplitude• Frequency• Spectrum
440 Hz tone stepping down from 0 to -80 dB in 10 dB steps
Audio frequency ranges
40 – 46,000 Hz
What? To What?
16 – 12,000 Hz
1,000 – 150,000 Hz100 – 50,000 Hz
1,000 – 100,000 Hz
70 – 150,000 HzRhythm-pitch example
A little experiment !
• Put your hand in the air
• Put your hand down when you can’t hear the sound any more.
• Keep an eye on who puts their hands down – and no cheating!!
Presbycusis
• After the age of 20 you lose 2 kHz from the upper range every 10 years
• 30 years - 18 kHz• 40 years - 16 kHz• 50 years - 14 kHz• 60 years - 12 kHz• 90 years - 6 kHz
Audiogram – “normal hearing”
Audiograms – hearing “damage”
Age related deterioration
Occupational hearing damage
Open CoolEdit
Tri-tone paradox
Rising and falling?
Shepard tone