Not Hearing Pure Tones on Audiograms When the Sound Is Barely Audible?

[Alue]

This is difficult to describe, but I have a hearing test app on my phone where you reduce a tone until it is barely audible. After my most recent hearing insult I tested my hearing again. At 2 kHz in my left ear, when I get to a barely audible frequency, it doesn't sound like a pure tone, I can tell sound is coming out, but it sounds distorted and not even like a 2 kHz tone but rather multiple frequencies that are alternating together. I tried flipping the headphones and did not notice the same thing in the other ear.

I have noticed this before in 12 kHz audiograms at the audiologist so I know it's not just my equipment, but this is the first time I've noticed it in the lower frequencies.

Has anyone experienced this or something similar?

 

[benjd2016]

This could be early signs of Presbycusis. But unless you can rule that out, it could be anything.

I have the same problem above 5.5 kHz in left ear and 7 kHz in right ear. It's annoying because it distorts at frequencies above those up to a certain point. It's like there is a gap between say 5.5 kHz and 6.5 kHz and the same with the right ear.

One of the most annoying things but I don't think music is ruined at this point.

As for me, if it got so bad that I could not enjoy music, I would review whether my life would be worth living at that point. Very scary.

 

[CW Dragon]

Your outer hair cells could be damaged and the ones around the 2 kHz pitch are amplifying incorrectly and so are amplifying sound to the incorrect inner hair cells. I think part of my tinnitus is like that since it isn't a stable 4 kHz ring but alternating similar pitches that randomly change (like musical ear tinnitus).

I got diplacusis and it sucks hard. When I tilt my head one way, I get a very noticeably different sound versus the other way. It's even noticeable on a pure tone audiogram. Not really distorted too much but just different.