Hearing Check

petrym

I tried the download and was very skeptical when I not only heard a tone, but it sounded way too low to be 17KHz. I found a tone generator and found that the NPR link is a combination of multiple tones that were way too low. I found that my personal hearing drops off at 13.2 KHz

Here's where to get the wave tools program suite: Wave tools Zip File SIG-GEN.exe is the file you'll want to use.

You'll also need to put vbrun300.dll in the same directory folder: vbrun300 (Note: this is an executable that will generate the dll and a text file)

Have fun!

MacLeod

wingnut4772 wrote:

I heard nothing..guess I am old.

Im right there with ya old timer. I heard nothing.

Edit - My wife didnt hear it either.

swerve

PolkThug
you hear that noise when the TV is turned on as well?!
Who else here hears that noise!?
So many people think I'm full of **** when I claim I can tell who has their televisions on, but low volume or muted in their apt. complex.

oh yea! I can hear it!

ESavinon

ouch. i heard it thru one ear only. I have tinnitus and hearing loss too.

MattN03

I can hear it. A co-worker d/l it to his PC yesterday & was playing it in the office. I start asking my boss, who is talking to me, if he hears this high pitch noise. No, he doesn't hear. The noise goes away for a minute and then comes back-this goes on for the next few minutes. I'm thinking my computer is making some noises or something and finally the other guy says "you can hear that"? Yeah, I can hear it! Turn it off!!! This kid is 20 or 21 & couldn't hear it at all, and I'm 27 and could hear it just fine. I can also hear a TV that is turned on, but has no sound coming from it...strange...

reeltrouble1

Sounds like some of you should stay away from Kryptonite, super hearing Polkies. I cant hear anything except some radio announcer dude.

RT1

PolkThug

swerve wrote:

PolkThug
you hear that noise when the TV is turned on as well?!
Who else here hears that noise!?
So many people think I'm full of **** when I claim I can tell who has their televisions on, but low volume or muted in their apt. complex.

oh yea! I can hear it!

Yep, I used to describe it as 'I can "feel" when a tv is on.'

ND13

reeltrouble1 wrote:

Sounds like some of you should stay away from Kryptonite, super hearing Polkies. I cant hear anything except some radio announcer dude.

RT1

You're clicking on the wrong tab. Click the download ringtone tab, not the listen tab.

wingnut4772

swerve wrote:

PolkThug
you hear that noise when the TV is turned on as well?!
Who else here hears that noise!?
So many people think I'm full of **** when I claim I can tell who has their televisions on, but low volume or muted in their apt. complex.

oh yea! I can hear it!

I hear that noise too. I can always tell if a TV is on as I walk up to a house on the job but I didn't hear this thing. People think I am crazy too:D

PolkThug

wingnut4772 wrote:

I hear that noise too. I can always tell if a TV is on as I walk up to a house on the job but I didn't hear this thing. People think I am crazy too:D

The tone the tv makes is 15.75kHz. Yeah, you can walk down an apartment complex hallway and when you pass each door you can tell if they have a TV on.

Now, if I could only hear the difference between a copper or silver rca interconnect. lol

joeparaski

OH...it's the "ringtone" that we download. I guess when I turned the speakers way up, the sound I was hearing was....a speaker turned way up with nothing playing sound.

I downloaded the ringtone and hear it just fine.

joeparaski

OMG OMG OMG!!!!! YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS......When I played the ringtone in my upstairs office, my 20 yr. old daughter, who was downstairs, called out asking me what that noise was. We exchanged places and she played the ringtone upstairs and I went downstairs to where she was and I couldn't hear a darn thing. She says the sound gave her a major headache and the side of her head is pounding....this has been for at least the last 5 minutes. The cat was also downstairs sleeping and his ears went up and his eyes went wide open.


Hmmmm........now I know how to "get" my daughter. WoW....this opens up a whole new way of..........hmmmmm...........*thinking devious things*

krabby5

I thought it was fake until I played it for another younger coworker...She heard it just fine...Most of the people I work with couldn't hear it, either. I'm 36 and have a constant ringing in my ears at all times..I don't notice it until I think about it, though...I'm pretty sure it's from all the loud music and concerts I have been to in my life...especially Motley Crue back in the late 80's or early 90's..I remember not being able to hear the microwave or the phone ringing for a week after that concert....

thanks Vince

Demiurge

joeparaski wrote:

OMG OMG OMG!!!!! YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS......When I played the ringtone in my upstairs office, my 20 yr. old daughter, who was downstairs, called out asking me what that noise was. We exchanged places and she played the ringtone upstairs and I went downstairs to where she was and I couldn't hear a darn thing. She says the sound gave her a major headache and the side of her head is pounding....this has been for at least the last 5 minutes. The cat was also downstairs sleeping and his ears went up and his eyes went wide open.


Hmmmm........now I know how to "get" my daughter. WoW....this opens up a whole new way of..........hmmmmm...........*thinking devious things*

How loud were you cranking that thig? I have crappy speakers at work, and I can hear it, but it definitely isn't hurting my ears. It's just annoying, but I'll try that at home.

joeparaski

That's just it, it wasn't loud at all, it fact, the volume on my computer speakers was actually low, I never thought she'd hear it all the way downstairs. Plus , the AC is on in my office and there's a couple of air purifiers running upstairs plus one downstairs plus I built her a modded computer that's running 6 fans. The sound gave her a headache that took a good 7 minutes to dissipate. And try as might I couldn't hear a sound when I went downstairs.

Demiurge

joeparaski wrote:

That's just it, it wasn't loud at all, it fact, the volume on my computer speakers was actually low, I never thought she'd hear it all the way downstairs. Plus , the AC is on in my office and there's a couple of air purifiers running upstairs plus one downstairs plus I built her a modded computer that's running 6 fans. The sound gave her a headache that took a good 7 minutes to dissipate. And try as might I couldn't hear a sound when I went downstairs.

So there's a bit of a grey area with the sound I guess?

joeparaski

Here's something weird.....I was at my daughters' boyfriends' house, and we played the ring tone, this time it was ME who couldn't hear a damn thing, yet the young people were cringing with pain (I had him turn the volume way up and I still didn't hear it). Now I just played it on MY computer and I hear it fine even at low volume.....why would that be? Speaker quality? Sound card?

unc2701

I'm kinda suprised no one has cross referenced this thread with one of the cable debate threads...

Anyhow, one of the big things to get accostumed to when i got an lcd TV was that there wasn't that 15hz tone... now it was fan noise.