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hearing tests - where and how?

It appears that "audiologists" are really only in the business of selling hearing aids, which are not even remotely full-range. After deciding to get tested, I found that almost no one does full range hearing tests - they don't bother to test beynd 8khz. I suspect that many readers of this forum would not consider an 8khz upper limit an adequate test. Has anyone already researched this, or found a source for a REAL hearing test? A Houston recommendation would be ideal.
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buconero117
2,311 posts
 
In New York, one of the better places is the New York League of Hard of Hearing, now located on lower Broadway. Great for testing as they do little if any selling of aids. Went there for over fifty years.
bwp
114 posts
 
Just use your system to play test tones in 1k increments starting out at about 10k, that will give you a real world idea of your hearing limits in your listening room. I did this recently I found I could not hear any of the tones past about 15k.
artmaltman
769 posts
 
Stereophile test cd #3. Very useful!

Alas, I get the same results with this test cd as I do when I go to audiologist.

Sigh.
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mdhoover
695 posts
 
There is at least one company that makes a CD containing test tones from 20-20,000 hertz their specifications suggest that it is reasonably accurate
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kr4
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AudioCD works well but it does require a very quiet environment in order to get reliable thresholds. Here is a link to my experiences with it.
[url]http://stereophile.com/reference/100digital/[/url]
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