There's really nothing interesting above 15 kHz anyway...

[LeftyStrat]

There was an annoying tone going on at my office today, the young folks heard it but the older folks didn't. Now I can remember a time in my early twenties I could hear up to about 23 kHz. Years later I was testing a synth oscillator I built with a frequency counter and realized my hearing had dropped to 18 kHz.

So I found an online hearing test and I've now dropped to 15 kHz as the highest frequency I can hear.

Sucks getting old.

Fortunately most guitar speakers drop pretty drastically after 5 kHz, so I guess I don't have to give up amp building just yet.

Customer: "Sounds like crap"
Me: "Yes a nap would be nice."

[Leo_Gnardo]

Similarly, when I was a young pup, could hear those high frequencies and sometimes they were VERY annoying. For instance a TV horizontal oscillator was clearly audible. (What's that, something like 15,625 Hz, somebody here will know.) And a multiple TV display in a big store was cacaphony torture beyond belief. My college girlfriend couldn't hear that & thought I was kookoo. I thought she was partially deaf but so what, she was such a sweetie. She heard everything else well enough.

The years have taken their toll (presbycusis - look it up - happens to everybody) but I can still hear fairly well up to 13-15K. Oh well, missing the top half-octave, big deal. I help my 93 year old neighbor across the street, who's deaf in one ear & can't hear outa the other. Yes even a new $2500 hearing aid barely gets him to half-understand things & most conversations take place on a piece of notebook paper. I hope I never get to that state of affairs & that goes for all the good folks on TAG too.

[John_P_WI]

We have a young intern at work in the engineering dept who is annoyed by all of the high freq audio noise produced by the switching power supplies. I on the other hand suffer from tinnitus and a high freq roll off above 7 khz, yeah I don't hear any of it.

[Reeltarded]

What headphones are you using?