• Potato Lover 💾 No brain found
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    4 hours ago

    When I went to ENT due to sudden tinnitus and loss of hearing higher frequencies in my left ear (which also felt a bit disorienting), they just tested my hearing with a machine that only went up to 6kHz, she said it was mostly fine, and that humans don’t need to hear above 6kHz anyway.

    So hey audiophiles, you’ve heard it, 12kHz sample-rate is HiFi.

    • NathanRanch@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      I used a tone generator to recreate my tinnitus, it’s about a 13k tone. I didn’t know they stop testing after 6k

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        ooo, i remembered testing this a while back. mine is a constant pitch: E11 or 42kish (i thought it was E12 but i just tested again to be sure). before my tinnitus showed up, i had damn good relative pitch. now i have nearly perfect pitch, and it’s all comparing the interval to the note that has not stopped ringing for 30 years.