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Sound Power

For everyone who values their hearing

Measure your hearing age and train your ears in one app — protect the high-frequency hearing that fades with age.

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Key Features

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Hearing Age Test

Find your hearing age from the moment a slowly rising tone becomes clearly audible.

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Audible Frequency Test

Record the top frequency you can hear as an objective number — retest a month later and compare the change.

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Hearing Rejuvenation Training

High frequencies are the first to fade with age. Speed-listening training helps you keep and sharpen them.

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English Listening, Too

Hearing training and English listening in one app — as your ears get younger, English gets easier to catch.

🔊 Ever notice yourself turning the volume up more and more?

With age, the high frequencies fade first. But the ear isn’t just for hearing — it’s the gateway to your brain.

Highest audible frequency by age (average trend)
  • 20s~17,000 HzWide high-frequency range
  • 30s~15,000 HzThe "mosquito tone" threshold
  • Early 40s~13,000 HzHigh consonants start to blur
  • Late 40s–50s~11,000 HzTV & call volume creeps up
  • 60s+~8,000 Hzs, f, th and other highs muddy

Tomatis theory — frequencies above 5kHz are “food for the brain,” feeding focus and alertness.

📺 Why we lose the high notes first (KBS documentary)

🔁 Measure → Train → Retest

A 3-step loop that starts with a number and ends with a number

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    1. Measure (3 free tests)

    Test your hearing age, audible frequency, and English listening in minutes to set your own baseline.

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    2. Train (5–10 min/day)

    Listen to Korean audio and repeat it, stepping up from 2× to 5×, while AI scores your pronunciation.

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    3. Retest (see the change)

    Measure again after training — compare the old you and the new you, number to number.

🎚️ The training audio is different — WAV original + BrainHZ

We kept the high notes that MP3 throws away

❌ MP3 · Streaming

Compression cuts off frequencies above roughly 16kHz — exactly the high notes that hearing training needs.

✅ WAV original + BrainHZ

Lossless WAV audio plus BrainHZ high frequencies delivers the rarely-stimulated high band clearly.

💬 A user’s experience

A user in their mid-60s first measured a hearing age in the 70s and had to keep the TV nearly maxed out (volume 20). After a month of 30–60 minutes of Korean speed-listening a day, they measured a hearing age in the 20s and turned the TV down to 7.

* Based on subjective, self-measured values; results vary from person to person.

🇺🇸 And a bonus — English-listening ears, too

As you get used to Korean speed-listening, your brain processes faster and your English-listening ears open up too. Hearing training and English listening in one app.

💻 No install — right in your browser

Don’t want to install an app? Measure and train right away in your phone or desktop browser.

📱 Screen preview

Sound Power Hearing Age screen
Hearing Age
Sound Power Audible Frequency screen
Audible Frequency
Sound Power Speed Training screen
Speed Training
Sound Power Science · Stats screen
Science · Stats
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🔬 Why Hearing Care Matters — the Science

Every claim cites a verifiable primary study.

🧠 Hearing Loss = #1 Modifiable Dementia Risk

The Lancet Commission (2020·2024): ~40% of dementia is preventable, and hearing loss is the single largest modifiable risk factor (7–8%). In the ACHIEVE RCT, hearing intervention cut cognitive decline by 48% in high-risk adults. → This is why hearing care matters.

Source: Lancet 396(2020)·404(2024) · ACHIEVE, Lancet 402(2023) · WHO 2021

👂 Tomatis Method — the Ear Charges the Brain

French ENT Dr. Tomatis: the ear isn't just for hearing — it charges ~30% of the brain's energy, and higher frequencies deliver more of that alertness energy.

Source: Tomatis A., The Conscious Ear (1996)

40Hz Gamma Stimulation

MIT Iaccarino (Nature 2016): 40Hz stimulation cleared Alzheimer's proteins (Aβ/Tau) by 37–53% and boosted microglia, neuroplasticity, and neural synchrony. BrainHz applies 40Hz modulation to its audio.

Source: Iaccarino et al., Nature 540:230-235 (2016)

🔁 Senior Neuroplasticity

Merzenich (UCSF): the adult and aging brain can rewire. An aged, dulled auditory cortex can be re-sharpened with repeated auditory training.

Source: Merzenich M., UCSF / Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

🦴 Bone Conduction — Bypassing the Eardrum

Delivers sound through bone straight to the cochlea, bypassing the air–eardrum path. Less ear-canal fatigue — good for seniors' long training and bedtime playback.

Source: Stenfelt S. / Shokz (AfterShokz)

🌙 Pink Noise

A 1/f-spectrum natural noise. Northwestern (2017): pink noise during deep sleep enhanced slow-wave sleep and memory consolidation.

Source: Papalambros et al., Front. Hum. Neurosci. (2017)

Speed Listening — a 'Harder-than-Normal' Signal

2–5x compressed speech gives the auditory cortex a harder-than-normal task, forcing neural reorganization. Start with familiar Korean to raise processing speed.

Source: Speed Listening project / Merzenich (training difficulty)

🎚️ BrainHz Audio Spec

A training-grade sound engine: lossless WAV, restored 16–24kHz highs, and 40Hz modulation combined — keeping the high frequencies MP3 throws away.

Source: BrainHz DSP spec

⚠️ This is educational research citation and does not guarantee prevention or treatment of any disease.

📺 Measure Your Hearing Age

Sound Power — Hearing Age Test & High-Frequency Training | BrainHz