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Title: if your over 18 you wont hear anything
Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 04:15:08 pm: http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3 (http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/audio/nyregion/20060610_RINGTONE.mp3)
heheh, teacher proof ringtone
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Post by: trevmeister66 on May 14, 2009, 04:22:36 pm: ouch, that hurt.. Im 18 and I could easily hear that...wish I hadn't, because I think I'm deaf in one ear now.. lol
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Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 05:26:36 pm: nice, the article that I got it from said that if you were under 18 you can hear it, but a friend told me it was under 30
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Post by: simplethinker on May 14, 2009, 05:40:39 pm: Quote from: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 05:26:36 pm
nice, the article that I got it from said that if you were under 18 you can hear it, but a friend told me it was under 30
It depends on the person.
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Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 05:44:26 pm: I guess, my teacher couldn't hear it unless he was really close to it
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Post by: lordofthegeeks on May 14, 2009, 06:38:41 pm: my ears are now ringing from that.
And I run a very loud machine and have a hard time hearing people taliking sometimes.
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Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 06:43:22 pm: nice, I had a big headache
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Post by: noahbaby94 on May 14, 2009, 06:44:35 pm: My mom can hear it and she's almost 40.
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Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 06:54:28 pm: wow, she's got good hearing for her age
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Post by: skuller972 on May 14, 2009, 08:13:37 pm: i had to turn my volume all the way up to hear it and it wasnt even that loud... i think that you need like daredevil hearing to hear that!
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Post by: Eeems on May 14, 2009, 08:18:30 pm: no your hearing isn't that good then, I can hear it from really far away, and it hurts
EDIT my mom can't hear it (she's over 50)
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Post by: skuller972 on May 14, 2009, 08:28:04 pm: maybe my computer has bad sounding... because i really think my hearing is alright, and i DID put it on full volume, and it was softer than my phone vibrating on a table
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Post by: simplethinker on May 14, 2009, 08:32:03 pm: Not being able to hear it just means that you can't hear that frequency, not that you have bad hearing. Hearing is measured by frequency range as well as the sound level reaching the ear (that's what decibels are), so frequency range isn't all that constitutes "good hearing" (plus, even if frequency range was all that mattered, this ring tone says nothing about the lower frequency limit). It's completely natural for the human ear's sensitivity to high frequencies to decrease; that's why this particular ring tone is most easily heard by children and not adults.
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Post by: skuller972 on May 14, 2009, 08:40:21 pm: well i am 13 and i guess my ears are too old for my body
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 15, 2009, 01:05:34 am: lol at lower volume it sounds like when an old TV is turned on
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Post by: necro on May 15, 2009, 03:43:44 am: 21 and I can hear it with ease and its a highly irritating noise
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Post by: Speler on May 16, 2009, 11:16:02 am: I was nervous that I had hearing damage then I realized my volume was off.
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Post by: Eeems on May 16, 2009, 12:53:49 pm: nice, lol
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Post by: Geekboy1011 on July 10, 2009, 10:04:19 am: lowd and clear i can here it

oh and i here this noise all the time like when i plug my phone in ds ect i here the electrical noise from chargers
can any one else do that
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Post by: Eeems on July 10, 2009, 02:43:50 pm: I can....and I can hear most electronics...
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Post by: Geekboy1011 on July 11, 2009, 11:00:56 am: yay im not alone most of my family thinks im nuts that i can here the chargers and sometimes the remotes and stuff
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Post by: allynfolksjr on July 11, 2009, 01:33:22 pm: Hearing the whine of a CRT TV is always a useful power-saving skill!
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Post by: Geekboy1011 on July 11, 2009, 01:41:35 pm: lol

yea tell me exspecially when all of the tv's u own are crt tvs (3 of em)
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Post by: JoeyBelgier on July 12, 2009, 06:19:18 pm: damnet, I hate it when I suddenly hear it harder than other times
XO
It suxs
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Post by: Geekboy1011 on July 13, 2009, 01:56:28 pm: im using the ring tone as a dog wistle it works quit well lol
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Post by: briecheese on July 13, 2009, 11:00:29 pm: Oh. Wow. NOT a pretty noise.
My mom couldn't hear it though.
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Post by: TravisE on July 16, 2009, 04:39:21 am: I can hear it, but are the tiny speakers in cell phones able to reproduce that frequency?

One odd thing with high frequencies is how the loudness seems to change dramatically just by slightly changing your position.
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Post by: Eeems on July 16, 2009, 01:30:40 pm: lol yeah
be glad that you were not sitting in a class where everybody was playing it at once, now that hurt....
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Post by: cooliojazz on July 17, 2009, 10:38:45 pm: You know, sometimes in silence and stuff, my ears will start ringing at almost that exact same freqeuncy...
Oh, and I can hear the TV's and stuff too.
[sidestory]For that matter, we have these lights in our basement that emit a noise a bit lower in freqeuncy, but much louder than that. They are bar lights, so whenever they my parents do something in there, they will turn turn them on. If me or my sister are down there we complain until they turn them off, though my dad still thinks we're crazy because he can't hear it. My mom can't hear them either, but she believes us...[/sidestory]
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Post by: TravisE on July 17, 2009, 11:24:34 pm: I notice that ringing in silence, too. Are your bar lights on a dimmer or are some kind of miniature fluorescent lights? Some dimmers or electronic fluorescent ballasts can make high-pitched sounds like that, too.
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Post by: cooliojazz on July 17, 2009, 11:27:04 pm: Actually, I think they are mini flourecents. Interesting...
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Post by: TravisE on July 18, 2009, 07:23:13 pm: I've seen compact fluorescents make that sound, though in my cases it's really quiet. Probably has something to do with how they operate at a high frequency (tens of kHz). Maybe it causes vibration or something that makes the sound.