Can you hear it

Just The One

http://audio.todayfm.com/files/ringtone.mp3


This is the new ringtone that ageing ears can't hear.

county

just about hear it

EWheelChair

Sounds like one of those things for deterring mice/insects. Myself and one of the younger girls in the office can hear the one in here but the older people can't.

Whoopdeedoo.

Ruu_Old

Yeah can hear it quite well.

michaela

i can hear it, but my mum cant. she wasnt too pleased that i called her upstairs to listen to something she cant hear!!

i'm 16

Archeron

I can hear that, and its quite painful to me.
Edit> I'm 29

spurious

43 - Can't hear it.

If only they could make music tracks like that for so many city centre pubs, so the young folk could be deafened and those of us that want to have a conversation, could.

Oriel

Can hear it perfectly well, very annoying to hear though.

Jello

Can easily hear it....it actually hurts my ears! (under 20).

ixoy

This cropped up at the weekend here. TV in my room is emitting a very high pitched whine, which I find distracting. Boyfriend however can't here it at all.
I drag in a flatmate and he hears nothing either.

So I go online and look at some pitch tests. I play the 15KHz one (which, I believe, is approximately the pitch of these "teenage only" ones) and I can hear it fine, as can they. 16KHz and it's fainter to them but bloody annoying to me. 17KHz and I'm going "ouch!" and they're both shrugging their shoulders - hearing nowt. 18KHz and, naturally they hear nothing, and I'm still wincing. It was quite interesting really for me to be going "that's bloody irritating!" and the others living in blissful silence (even with me being the eldest).

KamiKazi

yup, sure can.
it sounds the same as id imagine a dog whistle would
im under 20 btw

azezil

Not far off 26 myself, and that freakin hurts!

Kintarō Hattori

Yup I can hear it no problem and I'm 28. Gonna try it out with some of the folks in work.

Femelade

26 and heard it grand....hurts though! my mom, 53 first said she couldnt hear it, but then claimed she thinks she heard something alright.....sounds like someone doesnt want to admit they are old!

blah blah blah

ouch!:eek:

crosstownk

I can hear it - 36. Painful though.

thelordofcheese

can't hear a thing, and i'm only 23.... guess all that loud music has had an effect.

poggy

hurt like hell.....19

Sofaspud

PAIN!
We did a test for this a while ago in physics, I think the threshold for people is about twenty-something Khz.

My ears hurt

biko

There is another thread about this sound. Some more links there.

Burning Eclipse

spurious wrote:

If only they could make music tracks like that for so many city centre pubs, so the young folk could be deafened and those of us that want to have a conversation, could.

Couldn't agree more 3 people here can hear it, 2 of them 22 and myself 23...

Gordon

Painful. I'm over 30.

Dog whistles are much higher than that by the way.

ANarcho-Munk

I can hear it i'm under 20. It's not painful though, I don't knwo why peopel say it is.

projectmayhem

21 and i hear it fine. wouldn't use it as a ringtone though... jebus it's annoying.

heard it on the diggnation podcast there today. funny because of the 2 presenters, 1 heard it.

ThrownAway

Comes on everytime my screen saver comes on :mad:

Zascar

I'm 25 and my hearing is F**ked but I can hear it very well!

ThrownAway

It's suprising to see how many people over 20 can hear it since it supposably can't be heard by aging ears.

Orlee

22 and can hear it. Not painful, just really irritating!!

Big Ears

ThrownAway wrote:

It's suprising to see how many people over 20 can hear it since it supposably can't be heard by aging ears.

Yes but I would assume most of those over 20's would be in their 20's or very early 30's . I assume quite a lot of people 35+ wouldn't hear a thing .

[under 20] and it's fecking annoying .

Tar.Aldarion

Yip not a problem, we tested in physics how high we could hear. Unfortunately I can hear to a very high and very very annoying pitch.

Anima

I thought it was when you were over 30 that your ears started to degrade?

YeatsCounty

21 and I can just about hear it. Would never use it as a ringtone even if I could hear it perfectly.

ThrownAway

Anima wrote:

I thought it was when you were over 30 that your ears started to degrade?

Well you start the aging process in your 20s maybe your ears don't degrade till your 30s

ThrownAway

YeatsCounty wrote:

21 and I can just about hear it. Would never use it as a ringtone even if I could hear it perfectly.

Even though I can hear it perfectly it's not a tone that would suddenly get my attention. It's like when you get a ringing in your ears it takes a while to nitice it's there and once you realise it's there it starts to get worse.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

loud and clear, surprising, thought my hearing was terrible.

wouldn't suggest that shops play that to get rid of annoying teenagers (as it was originally invented for). Too many people seem to be able to hear it, regardless of age.

Pink Bunny

Yes, and my mother (age 44) heard it as well. So did my dog-

The Sweeper

29, can hear it as a high-pitched whine at the edge of my hearing. Unpleasant after effect: I stopped playing it and started to get it as a tinnitis echo in my ears a minute or two later. BLEH.

carver

i heard it (16) quite unfortunately.....its the most irratating sound i have ever heard next to the crazy frog

Gary ITR

22 and can hear it and I'm as deaf as an old sock

Lone Wolf

Yeah heard it (22), bloody annoying though.
My housemate came out his room cracking up thought the voices were back again

Nightwish

22 and I can hear it and it hurt my ears.

mikedragon32

I could hear it crystal clear. But it really pierces!

I'm 34.

Am I a bad person?

jemja

heard it - i'm 20 - not sore on ears more annoying squek thing. my parents and my 18year old bro couldn't hear though. wooh!! youngest ears!

fuzzywiggle

Under 20 and yes I can hear it

Scraggs

I can hear it grand [19yo] My sister who is 17 can't...hmmmn somethings not right there methinks!

faceman

Me (29) can hear it at about half volume on my speakers (i have a sub woofer). The Ma (54) can hear it at about 3/4 volume. Painful sound

Terry

6pm tomorrow on the discovery channel. mythbusters go looking fo rthe brown sound.

hiscan

i can hear it 32

faceman

julep wrote:

6pm tomorrow on the discovery channel. mythbusters go looking fo rthe brown sound.

didnt Brainiac on sky try this out on one of their people on tv n it worked?

ionapaul

Well, I can't hear it! I'm 29 and my hearing isn't the best I admit. If I turn the volume all the way up, I can just about make out a high pitched whine...but that is the volume turned to 11!

projectmayhem

faceman wrote:

didnt Brainiac on sky try this out on one of their people on tv n it worked?

yep!