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by CurtHagenlocher 2000 days ago
It's awesome how easy this kind of experimentation is today. Thirty years ago, I worked with a mathematician at JPL who used fairly specialized equipment to find a frequency notch where he had lost his hearing -- at roughly 8k, IIRC, in addition to his total inability to hear anything over ~12k. (The latter was probably just normal age-related high-frequency hearing loss). In those days, an accurate signal generator was an expensive piece of lab equipment... .
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Indeed! And here is even a website which uses pre-made tones and generates a personal audiogram with a bookmarkable link: https://hearingtest.online/