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Medical And Hearing Disclaimer

The Hearing Test, hearing range checks, ear age estimates and all hearing and noise content on the Site are not medical advice and are not a substitute for a hearing test by a licensed audiologist or a diagnosis by a doctor.

• Online hearing results are affected by your headphones, device volume, background noise and how you respond, so they can be wrong.
• A "normal" result does not rule out hearing problems, and a poor result does not confirm them.
• Never delay or ignore professional medical advice because of something you read or tested on the Site.

Measurement Accuracy

Tones, sweeps and noise are generated digitally and are exact in frequency. How they sound, and any reading taken through a microphone, depends on hardware and settings we cannot control.

Results are best used for quick checks and before-and-after comparisons on the same device.

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• Always start at low volume and raise it slowly.
• Stop at once if you feel discomfort, pain or ringing in your ears.
• Bass tones, sweeps and loud noise can damage small speakers, laptop speakers, earbuds, tweeters and amplifiers.
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