Test your speakers

[Jetster]

I have hearing loss and I could hear all of those. But my hearing loss is in the 3000hz range. (ruffly the level of a woman's voice)

I think this test is much better gives you more time at the lower Hz I can here it till 35Hz

I could hear down to 26hz
Klipsch Pro audio 2.1

 

[Iceni]

40-50Hz for me as well but here's the kicker.

My speakers are very old Creative DTT2200 5.1 I got them in either 1999 or early 2000. I've had to rebuild the controller unit on new pots but other than that I have yet to find a better 5.1 system in the same price range (I paid £86).

sorry for the french link.

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/289-1/cambridge-soundworks-dtt2200.html

but there old enough that no real reviews exist any more!

That second test I loose audio on 38Hz. But can hear all above.

Just found an English review! lol

http://www.icehw.net/review.php?id=100

 

[Frag_Maniac]

If you can hear less than 200hz than your speakers are high quality. If not, they are crappy.

That's got to be one of the worst blanket statements I've heard in a while. PLENTY of crappy speakers will play at 200Hz and well below, and the sound quality has more to do with than just the speakers.

Sennheiser HD 201 headphones
Jamo S426 HCS3 satellite speakers
Jamo Sub 210 subwoofer
Yamaha RX-V371 receiver (may be replaced w/ Pioneer Elite VSX-60)

My receiver is rated down to 10Hz. I hear sound down to 22Hz on the 2nd test with both my headphones and sub. My headphones are cheap and have fairly lackluster sound quality compared to the Senn HD 555s I used to have, though admittedly sound much better since upgrading from Realtek HD onboard sound to a receiver. My sub's actual rating is 38Hz. Needless to say Jamo speakers are fairly conservatively rated, and pretty durable too from what I've read.

 

[Delta6326]

Lol my phone only goes to 250Hz

 

[mediasorcerer]

The audio output device(ie the speaker itself) vibrates, no problem. It's how it makes noise in the first place.

1 Hz, really, is jsut a vibration, and not audio.


Getting lower than 4 Hz, for speakers, is one of the things that people pay $$$$$ for in real high-end speakers, BTW. Your Klipsch are simply not capable( neither are mine).

That "4 Hz" is a big thing in high-end audio, actually.

Don't get me wrong, you got awesome speakers, but they are NOT really anything CLOSE to high-end.


I use actual home audio gear plugged into my PC, and I'm not even gonna bother running the test. anything less than 20 Hz, my neighbours hear, and very loudly, while in my house, it's barely audible.


Your speakers features a crossover the passes anything lower than 120 Hz to the sub, BTW. My bookshelf speakers are rated to 10 Hz, yours...25 Hz(and that 25-120 Hz is sub-only). I did NOT hear 1 HZ. Yes, I heard a noise, but it was nowhere near 1 Hz.

Id imagine at those very low frequencies, one would "feel" rather than actually hear?

 

[popswala]

I could here it at 40Hz and up with my Logitech Z 2300 200w

I think this test is much better gives you more time at the lower Hz I can here it till 35Hz

This one doesn't give you any Hz, but i Love listing to it!...

I can hear down to 34 with my current setup. If I tweak it more like crank up the bass and fine tune it more past my liking I know I can go more. I live in a apt so I can't crank it to the way i use to run it. Back when I use to play alot of NFSU II lol. Those sure was some good times

 

[AphexDreamer]

I could hear everything off my sennheiser HD598 but I still question the quality of the youtube videos even at HD.

 

[xBruce88x]

I could hear it down to 25hz slightly, but fairly well down to 30hz. That's with my onboard chipset on my IBM T43 and a pair of logitech headphones. "Logitech ClearChat Stereo" I think was the name. the audio chip is some "SoundMAX Digital Audio" model based on the AD1981B

there was quite a bit of background static though

as for the 2nd video... I could tell it was a lower quality audio file uploaded with that video.

Test 2: using my desktop PC and my Logitech USB Audo Hub 2.1 speakers I could hear the bass as low as 45hz but just barely so I'd have to go with 50hz
Test 3: Using my desktop and the onboard ALC662 with the Logitech ClearChat Stereo headphones I could hear the bass as low as 25 if I listen carefully, but its more audible at 30Hz. Same amount of static/background noise as with the laptop