Golden Ear(Hear quotient test)

You have a 1000 USD headset.
But how is your hear quotient?
Do you worth it?
Let's do the Hear qotient test, see if you have golden ears.

It is strongly recommended to use Headphones.

You have to compare two samples: one is the pure linear signal, the other is the the loudspeaker output with enhanced or attenuated distortion. We don't tell you which sample is the distorted one - click "Sample A" or "Sample B" to play them, then make your choice.

It is easy at the beginning - we start with strongly enhanced distortion. If you recognize the distorted sample correctly, we'll make it harder. If you are wrong, we'll go back a few steps. How far can you go down?

Sorry - there is no "I don't know" option. If you are not sure, trust your intuition. You can hear more than you think, so we force you to take a choice. The test takes a few extra steps to weed out "good luck guesses". Show More