Can You Hear This Noise? Adults Arent Supposed To Be Able To...

#1 cowsgonemadd3

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 01:13 PM

I found this give it a read and download the tone to the left hand side.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technolo...serland&emc=rss

My parents say there cool they can hear it but not as loud as I can.... :thumbsup:

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 09:48 PM

Now I wonder if they could make a ringer that only adults can here, and young one can't... :flowers:

I think it is a great idea, only if your teacher is over 30 :trumpet:

I'm having trouble getting it on my phone. I can't even text the url to my phone. :inlove:

My phone is being akward. Anyways I'll eventually find a way to put it on there.

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 10:16 PM

Its to painful for me to want to put it on my phone...But maybe on my mp3 player to show friends...CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

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Posted 12 June 2006 - 11:47 PM

I can definitely hear it, it is quite piercing. Sound a little higher in pitch than my built in tinitis. Would guess about 16-17 KHz.

We used to use a similar item to keep the birds out of the hanger at the airport I flew out of. We'd pump out about 5 watts of audio power that swept in frequency from about 20 - 30 KHz. Couldn't hear it, but you could feel it - it gave the hangar an eerie atmosphere.

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 02:07 AM

Yeah, i can hear it, and so can my girlfriend. She hates the sound. Apparently it's a lot louder/more distinct to her than it is to me. I'm 19 and she's 17, so i don't think we should be THAT far apart..... maybe i'm just more deaf from all the metal :thumbsup:

Oh, something else i noticed. You seem to be able to hear it better if you face directly towards the speakers. I tried to turn my ear towards it, and it quickly disappeared.

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 08:25 AM

The sound reminds me of when I hear a TV on, from another room in my house.

I heard once, (not sure if it is true), that men are more sensitive to higher pitched sounds than woman. This is why most men can tell if a TV was left on in another room, and most woman can't.

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 01:08 PM

I can walk into a classroom or just a room in general and i can tell if the TV is on from that high pithced sound, but i had to have my speakers up all the way (on a laptop) and all the controls in the equalizer at 100% to be able to hear the ringtone :thumbsup:

Im only 15, and already going deaf.

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 01:12 PM

Yeah it kinda sounds the same way to me. I will be in bed and wake up and hear a ring sorta like that noise and know its the tv and when I focus I can hear the words to the tv. One or two of the dogs seem to be able to hear it but the cat doesnt mind even with the headphones...weird

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 01:58 PM

Just a FYI.. The high pitched sound you hear from the TV is the horizontal sweep - 15.75 KHz.

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Posted 13 June 2006 - 04:46 PM

This tone here is 17khz

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Posted 14 June 2006 - 04:47 PM

Cool. I didn't know what the frequency of the tv was, or why it made it.

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One or two of the dogs seem to be able to hear it but the cat doesnt mind even with the headphones...weird

Wait, what? Your cat uses headphones? :thumbsup:

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 04:04 AM

ddeerrff, on Jun 13 2006, 01:58 PM, said:

Just a FYI.. The high pitched sound you hear from the TV is the horizontal sweep - 15.75 KHz.

That is interesting to know. when i was in school i could hear that sound out in the hallway. then i would know we were going to get to watch a movie or something.

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Posted 18 June 2006 - 04:11 AM

I can hear this perfectly, it's so annoying, so I decided to test out the theory- can aults heard it?
Well, I asked my mum to come in, but she swore she couldn't hear a thing; whilst my dad could hear it perfectly, and yelled at me because it hurt his ears!
Hmm, differences between the sexes again?

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