You can't hear this over 30

Bamadude
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edited July 2008 in The Clubhouse
I can hear it at low volumes... super annoying. Age 32.
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  • jflail2
    jflail2 Posts: 2,868
    edited October 2007
    Yes, can hear it over my laptop speakers. incredibly annoying at age 33....
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  • Lainar
    Lainar Posts: 16
    edited October 2007
    I'm 40 and I had to turn the volume on my laptop way way down. Very high pitched and annoying


    Guess my age is only a number then and I'm really much much younger. LOL

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  • WilliamM2
    WilliamM2 Posts: 4,781
    edited October 2007
    I can also easily hear it. Age 43.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited October 2007
    Any way of finding out what frequency that is? I can hear it perfectly fine at 30.
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  • avguytx
    avguytx Posts: 1,628
    edited October 2007
    Kids use that for a ringtone on their cell phones in school (I hear) because most of the teachers can't hear it. My best friends 17 year old son told me that. I couldn't hear it when his phone was ringing...neither could my buddy.
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,842
    edited October 2007
    I can hear it just fine and I'm 30.

    This "news" "broke" about this time last year.

    The problem is that while the actual pure tone may not be audible to people with a certain level of hearing loss due to age, abuse, whatever, the harmonics introduced by the playback and compression of the actual sine wave are what is audible. It could be argued that some of the younger kids can't hear it either after beating the hell out of their ears drums with iPods and such.
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  • Ricardo
    Ricardo Posts: 10,636
    edited October 2007
    Man...that's annoying....I'm 48




































































































    I mean...annoying is the fact that I cannot hear it ;)
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,664
    edited October 2007
    I am 45 and That would piss me off going off in class.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2007
    35 here, and it was painful. The dog didn't care much for it either.
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  • Bamadude
    Bamadude Posts: 245
    edited October 2007
    Turns out the 17Khz mosquito ring tone might be a little dirty from being converted to mp3 thus allowing us 30+ folks to hear it more easily. Here's an interesting blog about it. Below are some cleaner tones to try out. The author recommends not turning the volume way up despite the fact that they are nearly inaudible because it's still pretty intense sound.

    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/15102Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16000Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16961Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/17959Hz.wav

    I can hardly hear the 3rd one... can't hear the last one at all.

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited October 2007
    That ring tone must be lower than 17k, I can only hear the first one of your links but can hear the ring tone.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2007
    Neat, first one clear as a bell. Second one about half as loud. Third almost non existent, Fourth - nothing, nada, zip.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited October 2007
    I had to turn the voume up for the last one.

    Perfect example of Fletcher & Munson hearing curve in action.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited October 2007
    There was a big thread about this on th AVS forums. Im 34 and so is the wife, we can hear everything up to 17 but not 18, 19 and 20.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited October 2007
    Tried it again. With the volume cranked, I could hear the first two fine, but barely heard the third one. It was funny seeing the meters jump on my amp but barely hearing any noise.
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  • billbillw
    billbillw Posts: 6,846
    edited October 2007
    I'm 37. I can hear the MP3 clear as day. In the wav files that were linked, I could hear up to the 16961 Hz pretty easily. The last one was lost though. Probably wouldn't hear that under normal conditions.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited October 2007
    Clicking the 'Listen' button on the NPR page, I couldn't hear a thing when she said "tones like this". However, I could hear the mp3 ringtone just fine.

    I can hear all four of the .wav files through my headphones. I went through them all and could hear them just fine, so then I thought I'd try it with the volume lower. I played the first one, and turned down the volume so it was just audible, and at that volume I could hear the first three. However, I can't hear the fourth one below 1/4 volume, but can above that.

    None of them are that annoying to me.

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  • SolidSqual
    SolidSqual Posts: 5,218
    edited October 2007
    My Grandma at 79 could hear it and jacked me when I couldn't turn it off. She's strong and kickin' ears and all.
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  • sucks2beme
    sucks2beme Posts: 5,605
    edited October 2007
    audiobliss wrote: »
    Clicking the 'Listen' button on the NPR page, I couldn't hear a thing when she said "tones like this". However, I could hear the mp3 ringtone just fine.

    I can hear all four of the .wav files through my headphones. I went through them all and could hear them just fine, so then I thought I'd try it with the volume lower. I played the first one, and turned down the volume so it was just audible, and at that volume I could hear the first three. However, I can't hear the fourth one below 1/4 volume, but can above that.

    None of them are that annoying to me.

    Oh, and I'm 22 days away from my 20th birthday.


    I find students having to have their damn cellphones always ringing annoying.
    Maybe if they had them surgically implanted. I could even suggest where to have them installed. The only distraction I ever had in school were those really short mini skirts.
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  • daboyz
    daboyz Posts: 5,207
    edited October 2007
    I'm 40 and I could hear it. My 12 yr. old was screaming at me from the other room.....
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  • markmarc
    markmarc Posts: 2,309
    edited October 2007
    I could hear it no problem from from the lousy mini speakers on my laptop and I'm 45.
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  • PolkThug
    PolkThug Posts: 7,532
    edited October 2007
    markmarc wrote: »
    I could hear it no problem from from the lousy mini speakers on my laptop and I'm 45.


    Go back and go through the 4 tones: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=709526&postcount=12
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  • Poee7R
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    edited October 2007
    Bamadude wrote: »
    Turns out the 17Khz mosquito ring tone might be a little dirty from being converted to mp3 thus allowing us 30+ folks to hear it more easily. Here's an interesting blog about it. Below are some cleaner tones to try out. The author recommends not turning the volume way up despite the fact that they are nearly inaudible because it's still pretty intense sound.

    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/15102Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16000Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16961Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/17959Hz.wav

    I can hardly hear the 3rd one... can't hear the last one at all.

    bamadude


    That fourth one started a nice little headache.

    Ouch.


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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited October 2007
    I could hear those first three pretty clearly- the last one less distinctly. And I'm 38 as of last Thursday.

    Another variable is your computer speakers: Most of the cheaper ones are well into their roll-off by 15khz.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,986
    edited October 2007
    jcaut wrote: »
    Another variable is your computer speakers: Most of the cheaper ones are well into their roll-off by 15khz.

    That's true, I'm listening on my Vaio laptop's built in jobbies.
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  • krabby5
    krabby5 Posts: 923
    edited October 2007
    PolkThug wrote: »
    Go back and go through the 4 tones: http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=709526&postcount=12

    couldn't hear any of em..I'm 37 and grew up on 80's metal like Motley Crue and Guns n Roses...those concerts were obscenely loud and obviously they took their toll on me:(

    or my work speakers just suck...
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,735
    edited October 2007
    As some here seem to think, I'm older than dirt. That said, no problem hearing the 17959Hz tone. In fact, I had no problem hearing the effing mosquito's at PF either.
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  • shadowofnight
    shadowofnight Posts: 2,735
    edited October 2007
    On my laptop I could hear the 15k tone but nothing above that....walked over to the server pc which has a decent pair of altec lansing speakers connected to it ( Actual separate tweeters/mids/and one sub ) and I could hear the rest of the tones as well.

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  • carpenter
    carpenter Posts: 362
    edited October 2007
    32 here.

    Could not hear the forth one.
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited October 2007
    Bamadude wrote: »
    Turns out the 17Khz mosquito ring tone might be a little dirty from being converted to mp3 thus allowing us 30+ folks to hear it more easily. Here's an interesting blog about it. Below are some cleaner tones to try out. The author recommends not turning the volume way up despite the fact that they are nearly inaudible because it's still pretty intense sound.

    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/15102Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16000Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/16961Hz.wav
    http://www.saunderslog.com/wp-content/sounds/17959Hz.wav

    I can hardly hear the 3rd one... can't hear the last one at all.

    bamadude

    I heard them all and the last one was the loudest. I'm 52.

    The ring tone in post 1, neither my wife 43, my dog 6, my son 10 nor I could hear it.
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