Trav Le Bleu Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 Well, my wife is profoundly deaf from childhood - maybe I'm empathically compensating? PS Daggers I am better than you - that person with a very high pitched voice says so - and you can't prove otherwise!
Phube Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I'm 18 and I can't really hear it That can't be good, drums must have fooked my ears up. One interesting thing is... Loud music (gigs/clubs etc...) will take out you low-end (low frequency) sensitivity... so you're safe, but maybe going deaf!!
Sparky Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I can hear it and so can the missus and the dog
Koke Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I'm 24 and I can hear it. My missus is 25 but she can't hear a thing.
syston_fox Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I can hear it but neither of my parents could. One of those sounds that goes right through you!
stez Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I'm 24 and I can hear it. My missus is 25 but she can't hear a thing. maybe she fibbing......! i can here it, and i'm a short, bald, 50 year old © maybes <_<
Maybes Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 maybe she fibbing......!i can here it, and i'm a short, bald, 50 year old © maybes <_< Eh? I can hear it. Yay.
Samilktray Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I'm 40 and I CAN hear it, though it's quite faint.What's supposed to be the age cut-off point? I have very good ears though. Once I couldn't sleep cos I could hear a disc spinning in my PS2 downstairs when I left it on by mistake. Had to go down stairs and turn it off. Thats quite phenomenal.
Asha Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 I can hear it. Try sticking that on full volume...Jesus.
stez Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 Eh?I can hear it. Yay. you're stez??! i imagined you were short, bald, and about fifty to be fair, i did mention i thought you were about 14
Maybes Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 to be fair, i did mention i thought you were about 14 Yeah I remember that bit you saying you though I was 14 . Sorry if I offeneded your fine self. Id had rather too many sherbets.
stez Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 Yeah I remember that bit you saying you though I was 14 . Sorry if I offeneded your fine self. Id had rather too many sherbets. you weren't that far off.....!
Daggers Posted 21 December 2008 Posted 21 December 2008 Try sticking that on full volume...Jesus. I did because I thought it was bollocks. The kids pulled brilliant faces, so much so that I think I may repeat it through my stereo on the hour every hour until they accept that they must do my bidding for their entire lives. Huzzah for brutal mind-control. Up yours little people.
Munzie Posted 22 December 2008 Posted 22 December 2008 At 39 years of age, I thought I would have a cat in hells chance of hearing it so I turned up my speaker volume to almost full volume. How do you stop ears from bleeding?
lavrentis Posted 23 December 2008 Author Posted 23 December 2008 Why? People were complaining about the horrible noise, I guess I should have put a warning..
Guest Posted 23 December 2008 Posted 23 December 2008 People were complaining about the horrible noise, I guess I should have put a warning.. To be fair, I knew it was going to be horrible if I could hear it. Still didn't stop me from finding out if I was one of the elderly freaks!
Edmund Posted 26 December 2008 Posted 26 December 2008 I find this hard to believe that people cant hear this as there will be an explanation. For starters if you cant hear that sound in theory you will suffer from tinnitus which would basically mean you would have that same ringing sound you've heard but permantly and it will mask that sound you just played meaning you think you cant hear anything? The explanation is that your speakers that you are using dont have a wide enough frequency range. Ive ran the sound through a multimeter and its peaking at 16,000 Hz which is pretty high in the spectrum so maybe your speakers arent picking these up as we all know computer speakers are small and usually go to roughly 20,000 hz as that is roughly the highest the human hearing range extends to. The reason why I say this is because my ears are battered and I can hear that loud and clear, but im listening through monitors with a high range. Hope this helps.
potter3 Posted 26 December 2008 Posted 26 December 2008 There's a simpler explanation...hearing deteriorates with age.
lavrentis Posted 26 December 2008 Author Posted 26 December 2008 I find this hard to believe that people cant hear this as there will be an explanation. For starters if you cant hear that sound in theory you will suffer from tinnitus which would basically mean you would have that same ringing sound you've heard but permantly and it will mask that sound you just played meaning you think you cant hear anything? The explanation is that your speakers that you are using dont have a wide enough frequency range. Ive ran the sound through a multimeter and its peaking at 16,000 Hz which is pretty high in the spectrum so maybe your speakers arent picking these up as we all know computer speakers are small and usually go to roughly 20,000 hz as that is roughly the highest the human hearing range extends to. The reason why I say this is because my ears are battered and I can hear that loud and clear, but im listening through monitors with a high range. Hope this helps. I have Tinnitus and can hear it. I should Imagine most speakers on the market can play this sound, my Dad was totally deaf to it and he has pretty good ears.
Guest Posted 26 December 2008 Posted 26 December 2008 It's true, people start to lose the ability to hear at both extremes of the scale, so to speak. There is no set age, but most people start to lose the higher end in their early 20's. That doesn't mean people in their 30's and 40's can't hear it, and all people in their teens will.
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